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The GrapheneOS developers are giving me concerns about the future of GrapheneOS (midwest.social)

submitted 2 days ago by 12plus1plus12@midwest.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The drama and accusations the GrapheneOS developers are spewing and engaging in are giving me a bad taste in the mouth and make me doubt the OS’s reliability am I the only one?

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[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It mainly makes me pine for linux phones. I think Graphene is the best we have at the moment in the mobile space, but that's far more of a testament to our lack of options than how valuable Graphene is. I have no doubts that we'll eventually kick Graphene to the curb when it stops being useful, so I'm not overly concerned with its future. Worst-case, I think many of us would be just fine on any other AOSP rom for a few extra years until linux phones can come save us all.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

pine for linux phones

I see what you did there.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I could be wrong, but I think Linux would be horrible for the kind of security you'd want in a smartphone. At least that's what I read from the GrapheneOS folks...

[–] gtr@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

Depends on what your threat model is. Sure a fully locked down mobile OS is more secure, but I also care about freedom and privacy. It's not all black and white.

[–] CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca 5 points 2 days ago

As far as I'm aware this is true (same with a lot of desktop linux distros), but I'm more interested in freeing myself from Android at the moment. I'm sure we can get there eventually w/r/t security, but it takes time, and we'll never get there if we don't start moving.