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GrapheneOS
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

Open source privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.


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https://grapheneos.org/
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https://discuss.grapheneos.org/
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https://github.com/GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

In April 2024, Pixels shipped a partial implementation of our January 2024 proposal for firmware-based reset attack protection. Fastboot mode now zeroes RAM before enabling USB. This successfully wiped out the After First Unlock state exploit capabilities of two commercial exploit tools.

GrapheneOS
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

Consider joining the GrapheneOS community in our official forum and chat rooms!

Forum:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/

Our official chat rooms are bridged across these 3 main platforms:

Discord:
https://discord.com/invite/grapheneos
Telegram:
https://t.me/GrapheneOS
Matrix:
https://matrix.to/#/#community:grapheneos.org

#GrapheneOS #forum #discord #telegram #matrix


GrapheneOS
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We've built our own text-to-speech system with an initial English language model we trained ourselves with fully open source data. It will be added to our App Store soon and then included in GrapheneOS as a default enabled TTS backend once some more improvements are made to it.

GrapheneOS
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We're ending operations in France and ending our use of French companies (mainly OVH) to provide services because of direct quotes by law enforcement in dozens of French news publications. Their inaccurate claims about GrapheneOS and thinly veiled threats were our sign to leave.

GrapheneOS
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A false narrative is being pushed about GrapheneOS claiming we're ending operations in France due to the actions of 2 newspapers. That's completely wrong. If both newspapers and the overall French media had taken our side instead of extreme bias against us, we'd still be leaving.

GrapheneOS
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

We won't travel to France including avoiding conferences and will avoid having people working in the country too. A simple heuristic for the EU is avoiding countries supporting Chat Control. We genuinely believe we cannot safely operate in France anymore as an open source project privacy project.

GrapheneOS
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Our discussion forum, Matrix, Mastodon, etc. in OVH Bearharnois can be moved to local or colocated servers in Toronto instead. We can use Netcup (owned by Anexia, both German) as one of the main providers for website/network service instances. The majority of our servers are already not on OVH.

GrapheneOS
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GrapheneOS doesn't host services storing sensitive user data. We have signature verification and downgrade protection for updates to the OS, apps and app store metadata. We're going move our website and discussion server away from OVH. Our update mirrors and authoritative DNS are already elsewhere.

GrapheneOS
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

France supposedly has a right to reply which we intend to exercise to respond at length to these articles containing libel from the French state.

We're going to be ending the small amount of operations we have in France as we don't feel the country is safe for open source privacy projects anymore.

GrapheneOS
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Open source is why we can build GrapheneOS based on the Android Open Source Project. It doesn't make Linus Torvalds, IBM, Google, etc. responsible for what we do. Similarly, others can make their own software based on GrapheneOS. A fork of GrapheneOS contains a small portion of code written by us.

GrapheneOS
@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

Both Android and iOS try to defend users from the same attack vectors we do. We developed far better protections against exploits which we release as open source code. Open source means anyone can freely use it for any purpose, exactly like the Android Open Source Project used by GrapheneOS itself.

GrapheneOS
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Vast majority of the code for those products comes from elsewhere: Android Open Source Project, Linux kernel, Chromium, LLVM and other projects. Of course the non-profit open source project writing a small portion of the code being used by those companies being targeted rather than IBM, Google, etc.