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

submitted 1 month 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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[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

While I do find GOS drama a bit annoying, they aren't wrong about the lacking security of many AOSP forks. iode and /e/OS have a history late patches for security vulnerabilities in both the OS (https://web.archive.org/web/20241231003546/https://divestos.org/pages/patch_history) and for the forked apps they bundle with it. Each Android monthly and Chromium patches usually contains dozens High Risk CVEs, so taking a month or 2 is unacceptable. Neither are good for privacy or security.

See a comparison between some Android ROMs here, especially noting the update speed section: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

[–] majster@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I understand security implications but I'll be getting Fairphone 6 with /e/OS over Pixel with GrapheneOS. For me FOSS ranks higher than HW security features, and buying Google device goes against FOSS principles.

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Buying a used Pixel lets you use the hardware without funding Google.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

*Directly funding Google. You are certainly participating in a secondary market for their product you purchase used.

[–] Scirocco@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Not being familiar with the controveries referenced in this thread....

All of this reminds me very much of OpenBSD and Theo de Radt (?) back in the 98-02 era.

OpenBSD is certainly not the most popular *nix today, but it's probably the most secure.