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This is an essential feature for my personal GrapheneOS phone. I only tend to use it once or twice a day most days, which means it is usually freshly rebooted
by summermusic 2y ago
This is an essential feature for my personal GrapheneOS phone. I only tend to use it once or twice a day most days, which means it is usually freshly rebooted every time I go to use it.
I remember reading somewhere that many new exploits in the mobile space only exist in memory and are thwarted by a simple reboot, including the infamous Pegasus spyware.
- ruthmarx 2y agoGraphene might be great, but the Google specific hardware that is the only thing it will run on might not be as trustworthy.
- bohdanqq 2y agoGraphene is not limited to Google hardware, it's just that Google hardware meets their hardware requirements... (https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices). AFAIK (from observing GOS comm channels) verified boot (alternative OSes but even the mechanism itself since some OEMs customize quite a bit), hardware rate limiting and timely security patches (which include modem firmware, preloaders - i.e. hardware) are the main reasons other devices are not supported.
- Malidir 2y agoIt is limited at moment to just pixel!
- saagarjha 2y agoI am curious why you feel this is an "essential" feature. If you only use your phone once or twice a day, why would a hypothetical attacker bother targeting it?
- consteval 2y agoIf your phone contains sensitive information, perhaps pictures, financial information, texts, etc, and it gets stolen - this data could be extracted. But typically, when a phone is rebooted, the drive is encrypted. So you're good to go. Phone theft is quite common, and probably the thief won't bother trying to extract data, but they might.