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Yes it will take many years. This whole thing has already played out with FSF and Replicant. They ended up stuck working on a couple of ever aging devices as many new generations o…

All android devices launched with android 15 or newer need to support Android Virtualization Framework. So there will be support for VMs.

>GrapheneOS can not do anything about that. GrapheneOS does not include any of the Google apps that implement Play Protect. You can install them, but they run in the sandbox like n…

GrapheneOS recently added toggles to work around this https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025100300

Rethink DNS app provides the ability to do that. Also can use it to connect to any Wireguard VPN and also monitor connections. There are various apps that either connect directly t…

What if you truly want the security properties provided by a device which can keep keys in a way where you fully control their use but its extremely hard for anyone to extract them…

Theres been a consistent pattern of both low quality and advanced malware looking for and targeting the weakness introduced by rooting a device. Here is a recent report of widespre…

Ive been using GrapheneOS for years and was in the chat rooms a fair bit, this isnt something common. Sounds like it may be hardware failing. Having bootloader locked you get verif…

Not sure if you've used GrapheneOS recently? If apps are heavily tied to Google Play Services you can install that and, in the vast majority of cases, get very good compatibility. …

Or you couod look at using an android operating system which also supports bootloader relocking, but that doesnt have a history of repeated significant delays rolling out security …

Some apps suggest they use it when they dont. Some (most) apps use a weaker form which an android/AOSP operating system can comply with, without being registered with Google (licen…

It used to be the case that iphones were way ahead of security in android. With the efforts that have gone into improving things in the last few years and Google stepping up the qu…

The writeup of the bug states that it was patched in the January update for Pixels, which GrapheneOS has. But previous work on applying mali patches early led to GarpheneOS having …

While its likely Cellebrite make use of some known (and possibly some unknown) exploits to bypass the screen lock on some phone models and get at user data, sometimes they require …

Theres a lot more to the android app sandbox than just running processes as seperate users. Theoretically something similar could be implemented in some other 'typical linux system…

There are endless launcher apps and icon packs you can get from F-Droid or elsewhere if you want to change the look of your phone. AnySoftKeyboard is the keyboard on F-Droid with t…

Magikeyboard is a function you enable in KeepassDX. Gives you an extra 'keyboard' you can switch to just for entering passwords. Stops other apps being able to swipe your passwords…

This is what CopperheadOS has become. Trading off the reputation they gained from before the split. When they were still publishing their sources they were often lagging months beh…