Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too
termaxima@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I want GrapheneOS more than repairability, personally. I hope the Fairphone + GrapheneOS combination is possible some day…
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Fairphone is the sort of phone for people who think LineageOS with an unlocked bootloader is secure made by a company who has sincerely promised to make things better but hasn’t substantially improved security (especially in how often they push security patches). Grapheneos is not a brand name you can just apply to give a phone more reputation, its an OS that represents the highest standard of security.
atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
What maskes you want Graphene over e/OS? I’m not so familiar with how they feel.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Graphene modifies AOSP for much more security.
E.g.
I dont think e/OS is as security oriented, more privacy oriented
atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Thanks for sharing. For someone who is not so well versed in these technicalities, what does that mean for the user? That you’re more susceptible to fraud and hacking and malware?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day ago
Basically GrapheneOS is for people worried about law enforcement or some state actors trying to access their phone using some commercial tools or 0 day exploits. It’s useful for journalist, lawyers, activists and so on.
Average users don’t really have to worry about those things. It’s unlikely that someone will try to hack you using such tools, you most probably don’t have any data wort protecting and it’s quicker and easier for you to just unlock your phone than to spend days/weeks/months in jail trying to protect your data.
What average user should care about is removing Google from their phones and blocking trackers. Other ROMs like iode also come without Google and have better tools than GrapheneOS for blocking trackers. They are as secure as any other Android phone.
LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
From a user’s perspective, when you install an app, you can:
There are a bunch of other, security features it provides, but from a “normal user” experience, the ability to take control of your data is probably one of the most impactful.
It is possible to do similar things with other CFW, but AFAIK, graphene is the only one to cleanly integrate it as a polished feature of the ROM.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 1 day ago
A big thing is gOS not using JIT compiling. So, app updates are pretty slow but this kills a lot of malware exploits.