• S410@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Considering the lead developer of GrapheneOS bans anyone from their chat for asking how an Android phone with GrapheneOS compares to a non-android phone, such as a PinePhone or Librem 5, in terms of security, because, according to said developer, PhonePhone and Librem5 are “scam products” and even asking questions about them is “spreading misinformation” and “promotion of fraud”, I’d be quite, quite vary of the claims GrapheneOS developers make about its security.

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      2 years ago

      The lead dev stepped down months ago, and the main thing with non-Pixel phones are the lack of security which is why only Pixels are currently supported.

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      2 years ago

      Isn’t Librem the one so slow to ship products and do refunds thereafter, it’s basically a scam? Yes, it is. It’s the Purism scam company. I watched a video on it. It was informative and unfortunate.

      GrapheneOS is good apparently, even though I’m wary of the idea that a phone that Google sells could ever be secure…

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        The only parts of this phone not open source are google proprietary drivers for the hardware. I highly doubt those are compromised.

        I’m pretty confident my Pixel 6 is not phoning home to the mother ship.

        Edit: and I guess whatever grub/bootloader is on here might also be closed source, not sure.