Graphene OS (Android fork)

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Graphene OS (Android fork)

Postby R_Head » 18 Dec 2020, 17:17

Going to try this one. I had CyanogenMOD and was kickass on my old Galaxy S3.

https://grapheneos.org/#grapheneos

GrapheneOS is an privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility developed as a non-profit open source project. It's focused on the research and development of privacy and security technology including substantial improvements to sandboxing, exploit mitigations and the permission model. GrapheneOS also develops various apps and services with a focus on privacy and security. Vanadium is a hardened variant of the Chromium browser and WebView specifically built for GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS also includes our minimal security-focused PDF Viewer, our hardware-based Auditor app / attestation service providing local and remote verification of devices, and the externally developed Seedvault encrypted backup which was initially developed for inclusion in GrapheneOS.

GrapheneOS improves the privacy and security of the OS from the bottom up. It deploys technologies to mitigate whole classes of vulnerabilities and make exploiting the most common sources of vulnerabilities substantially more difficult. It improves the security of both the OS and the apps running on it. The app sandbox and other security boundaries are fortified. GrapheneOS tries to avoid impacting the user experience with the privacy and security features. Ideally, the features can be designed so that they're always enabled with no impact on the user experience and no additional complexity like configuration options. It's not always feasible, and GrapheneOS does add various toggles for features like the Network permission, Sensors permission, restrictions when the device is locked (USB peripherals, camera, quick tiles), etc. along with more complex user-facing privacy and security features with their own UX.

The features page provides an overview of the substantial privacy and security improvements added by GrapheneOS to the Android Open Source Project.

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Re: Graphene OS (Android fork)

Postby dedanna1029 » 07 Feb 2021, 16:08

We gotta kick Google out somehow!
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Re: Graphene OS (Android fork)

Postby R_Head » 07 Feb 2021, 18:04

Google started on the right foot until the See Eye Aye got their greasy claws on it, same as Twatter, Amazon, Apple, MS and few others. FB was and is the rebranding fo DARPA's LifeLog and Zucky is the pitchman.

Funny is, any company starts at the right foot and when they succeed, the Sith comes and brings them to dark side. ;)

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Re: Graphene OS (Android fork)

Postby dedanna1029 » 14 Feb 2021, 04:49

Every. single. time.
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