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Let me give you another perspective - you cannot fight a foreign state that wants to hack your device and access your personal data. Even Apple iPhones, who oft
by thisislife2 8mo ago
Let me give you another perspective - you cannot fight a foreign state that wants to hack your device and access your personal data. Even Apple iPhones, who often taut how "secure" their devices are, remain vulnerable to state spywares. A secured device, at most, will protect your data from the police or lay cracker or malware, who lack the means to use more sophisticated methods to access your data. When Android forks (like Lineage OS or Graphene OS) advertise that their Oses are more "secure", with better "data protection", what they mean is that their OSes try and prevent data leakages to the OS vendors (like Google or Apple or other BigTech) or to online services integrated with the OS or through system and user installed apps. In other words, "privacy and security" primarily means that they try and prevent surveillance capitalism.
- chpatrick 8mo agoActually Graphene has been shown to be resilient (uniquely) to some of the forensic tools used by governments.
- M95D 8mo agoProbably because nobody targeted them yet.
- latentsea 8mo agoWhich demographics do you think run GrapheneOS as a daily driver other than people who have shit to hide? They've definitely been targeted.
- NotPractical 8mo ago...apparently most of HN, judging by these recent threads?
- DANmode 8mo agoYeah, I hide that I’m using apps from other spyware apps. What of it?
- NotPractical 8mo agoYou should probably ask the parent commenter. I think GrapheneOS is a good choice even for those that don't have something to hide. Reminds me of iOS, really (in a good way).
- latentsea 8mo agoMy point was it's the OS of choice for those in organised crime, so yes, it has been targeted.
- gruez 8mo agocellbrite specifically has grapheneos in its support matrix.