GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS is an open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.
What is GrapheneOS?
GrapheneOS is a 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.
GrapheneOS will never include either Google Play services or another implementation of Google services like microG. Those are not included in the Android Open Source Project and are not required for baseline Android compatibility.
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- English
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- Android ROM
- Operating System
- Security & Privacy
- copperheados-successor
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Into the Cyberverse • Privacy Services (WIP) • Privacy focused OS for everyone • Privacy KingsRecent user activities on GrapheneOS
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As an IT security and privacy expert for regulated industries, this is all I use personally and professionally and is always my top recommendation for others seeking maximum security and privacy of their data and identities.
Graphene is a relatively good Android distribution/ROM for privacy-minded people.
However, the community surrounding it makes it utterly unattractive to engage with the project. The OS plays its role very well, but the community has no place in attacking surrounding projects.
The GrapheneOS community are a toxic bunch that attacks other projects and spread libel about similar projects. I cannot speak on the GrapheneOS security but I am not happy with how the community treats others. Strcat (Daniel Micay) was removed from the AOSP Alliance https://github.com/AOSPAlliance/README/commit/cbd2a95cba7c2af13d397f3b2057cb05006e110f and the GrapheneOS IRC channel is rife with slandering.
Stop the attacks against GrapheneOS with your false statements and SCAM activities. Here some proofs about your SCAM: https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1171170734380654597 https://renlord.com/posts/2020-03-25-copperheados-legal-threat/ https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/klbjhu/just_a_reminder_that_grapheneos_is_being_sued_by/ https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1344166710534959105 https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1171170734380654597 https://twitter.com/DanielMicay/status/1363413154131283969 https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/lppfbm/proof_of_copperhead_threatening_a_phd_student_for/ https://github.com/yegortimoshenko/copperhead-takeover/ https://grapheneos.org/#history https://grapheneos.org/legal/Micay_%20Copperhead_%20Statement%20of%20Defendant%20and%20Counterclaim.pdf
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GrapheneOS is awesome! Never have I felt safer with an operating system. The safety & privacy beats any other mobile OS I've used, and I still get all of the functionalities of a modern smartphone.