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Heh, my first thought was “Don't they do this already?”, but apparently GrapheneOS was ahead of the curve there. Nice.

• hackernewds 2y ago
  How would an OS taking over your hardware would be ahead of the curve or nice?
  • throwaway314155 2y ago
    Because it's an effective tactic against exploits that can't survive a reboot, which is somewhat common from my understanding. The idea being that police can confiscate your phone and just keep it on and charged until they can buy or develop an exploit targeting your current device and software. I was admittedly confused about this distinction at one point too. It's a trade-off (although few people effected by this own phones with truly free, user-respecting soft/hardware in the first place).
• kernal 2y ago
  > GrapheneOS was ahead of the curve there Not really. Samsung was the first with this, but their reasoning had absolutely nothing to do with security. It was because their phones slowed down over time and their solution was to give users the option to reboot it at specific intervals. You could even make the argument that the Samsung solution is still the superior solution because you get to set the interval.
• illiac786 2y ago
  Still ahead of the curve, as it can be disabled on grapheneOS while it apparently won’t bee possible in Android ;)