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What would they gain from making it closed source? There isn't any distribution of AOSP that competes with Android. If they would close-source it, the community for sure will pick up the pieces.
GrapheneOS is the community picking up the pieces.
https://tbot.substack.com/p/grapheneos-new-oem-partnership > GrapheneOS has officially confirmed a major new hardware partnership—one that marks the end of its long-standing Pixel exclusivity. According to the team, work with a major Android OEM began in June and is now moving toward the development of a next-generation smartphone built to meet GrapheneOS’ strict privacy and security standards.
We will see how that goes. I love GrapheneOS, I've used it for years, but the details matter. An OEM partnership might promise a lot at the start, but a lot can change between now and delivery.
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Indeed. However, in terms of the independence, better choices exist.
If someone is making a new browser, considering you want to support the same web standards as everyone else, being independent is pretty low on the priority lists. In fact it is more of a liability since it could make for compatibility issues.
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Pixel hardware is below average? Since when? That sounds like a flagship phone to me.
In raw cpu and gpu performance terms it is quite weak compared to other flagships. You dont notice unless youre gaming or encoding video or doing other heavy workloads. The daily driver experience is very smooth. The cameras and camera software is in the top 5 consistently though, the screens are also really good, so its a mixed bag hardware wise.
https://tbot.substack.com/p/grapheneos-new-oem-partnership > GrapheneOS has officially confirmed a major new hardware partnership—one that marks the end of its long-standing Pixel exclusivity. According to the team, work with a major Android OEM began in June and is now moving toward the development of a next-generation smartphone built to meet GrapheneOS’ strict privacy and security standards.
Oh that's one of the best news in the smartphone world in a long time. It's impossible to escape the Apple/Google duopoly but at least GrapheneOS makes the most out of Android regarding privacy. I still wish we could get some kind of low resource, stable and mature Android clone instead of Google needlessly increasing complexity but this will over time break app compatibility (Google will make sure of it) Edit: I do…
As a LineageOS user, I'd be interested in the disparity between GrapheneOS and LineageOS.
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Or use everything via the web browser; but yes, I think apps are the main reason we can't just have a generic Linux phone OS on an open hardware platform
Isn't there an emulator that can run Android apps inside any Linux distro?
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Some of the funnest work, if you could get it, was swapping ssds out of laptops coming through customs for high value targets.
Which is another reason we need to strip this hardware attestation stuff out of the hardware. It either needs to use exclusively keys the user loaded into the device themselves or the keys aren't on the device whatsoever and then the "high value targets" verify the contents of the drive from a known-clean machine once they get it back from the adversarial foreign officials before putting it back into service. Or bett…
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If you have a Pixel -> Graphene, if not -> Lineage. I personally don't care about "security" all that much, my main reason for using Graphene is freedom to use my hardware in any way I wish. This means unrestricted ability to run any program on the phone from any source. Sideloading restrictions don't apply to Graphene, and it is also impossible for state actors to impose things such as client-side scanning of text m…
Don't understand your statement about avoiding client-side scanning of text messages. I've always assumed it would be done by the apps themselves, e.g. WhatsApp, Telegram, etc..
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Some of the funnest work, if you could get it, was swapping ssds out of laptops coming through customs for high value targets.
Can you expand a bit? They didn’t notice the ssd swapped? Which country? Customs as in sending deliveries or passing a border with a laptop?
Any specific individual that is high value will walk into a store and buy from stock.