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GrapheneOS Foundation To Never Required ID or Other PII To Use GrapheneOS (grapheneos.social)

submitted 5 days ago by KindnessInfinity@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44781501

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

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[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Now we just need to see how different distros handle it

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Just saw a report yesterday that systemd will implement age verification, meaning it might not be up to the distros.

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 days ago

Its just storing a date you tell it is your birthday. Nothing more than an age gate that can easily be lied to.

Honestly just have your distro zero accounts out to 00:00:00-1970-01-01 by default.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Might not be up to the distros?

Most distros already have a non-systemd variant out there.

And systemd is also open source; if age verification is baked in, people can just modify it to always return a positive result.

[–] xvertigox@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Time to replace systemd, I guess.

[–] ramenu@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Easiest solution is to just fork it rather than replacing it entirely

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago

nah, patch it out if it becomes an issue (x doubt)

[–] TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

May go the Gentoo route. majority of my friends use that as their primary os. peer pressure + compiling your OS is fun

[–] penguin@lemmy.pixelpassport.studio 3 points 5 days ago

I just did that yesterday, definitely a more involved setup but I really like it so far. I wanted to ditch systemd for a few reasons but this recent news finally gave me the motivation.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Time to go back to init.d

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

No, they won't. They added an age field to the user profile, right next to name, etc. It's there in case systems want to use it.