The foundation behind the ultra-secure Android-based OS is speaking out after an activist was indicted for using a ‘duress password’ to prevent federal agents from searching his phone.
The foundation behind the ultra-secure Android-based OS is speaking out after an activist was indicted for using a ‘duress password’ to prevent federal agents from searching his phone.
If you reject the only supported hardware platform your priorities clearly lie elsewhere.
Come on, there gotta be many people who want to avoid buying a fucking pixel, even if second hand.
And if you don’t know why Pixel is the only phone supported that is on you. They are the only phone that allows you to relock the boot loader with a custom ROM. And since grapheme OS is all about security why would you want to run a phone with a unlocked boot loader. That is a point of weakness.
No, they are not the only phone that lets yoy relock the bootloader.
They are the only phone to do that the proper way, while also including a TPM.
Lemmy is a place of idealism. Which don’t get me wrong is great, but it does mean no practically and often detriment to the changes they want to see in society.
Afaik Pixels come with the least bloat to work around amd also have some security features the GOS people like. Buying used or refurbished Pixel is currently the best you can do, so Google doesn’t get any more money.
Nothing to do with bloat as pixels have ton of bloat but has to do with security. You can relock boot loaders.
I want to try to do this on a lineage os on a one plus 5t, with me luck as it involves rebuilding everything
If these people’s priorities are to wait for for years until an expensive phone from Motorola is supported I think they need their heads examined, but that’s just me.
Some people simply can’t afford to buy an extra phone, not even a used one. And some people don’t even have a Pixel option in their market.
But if you think money and phones simply grow out of trees in all of the places of the world that the US has fucked, maybe it’s you who needs your head examined.
Unfortunately Graphene has a reason for this, Pixels are (for now) the only phones with the HW security requirements list Graphene has, they’re just the most secure (HW wise) phones on the market.
They also share your sentiment, but realistically they have to work with what exists, not what is fantasy. They are taking steps with Moto to get off of that dependency however and that phone should be just as secure (where their current ones lack something on the list.)
If you just want to get away from google, try LineageOS, if you need it to be secure then you’re just as stuck as Graphene is, I’m afraid.