Wrll you have to use a pixel phone to use graphene os
Or anything Google for that matter. I see a lot of praise on Lemmy for their Pixel phones, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they eventually find there was a backdoor in their firmware all this time. Yes of course, I can not prove that right now, but this news about Google Chrome isn’t news for no reason. Don’t trust anything Google if you care about privacy, it is literally their business model (selling targeted ads).
joel_feila@lemmy.world 2 months ago
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Yeah, I’m not super happy about that part, but don’t really know what to do
Emerald@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Use a Pixel phone. No more sketchy then any other popular phone manufacturer
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
It’s what I do. With degoogled os. But the proprietary blobs aren’t filling me with confidence.
GoogleSellsAds@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Eat the ads then.
Emerald@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well pretty much all computers have a backdoor to the CPU. That hasn’t been proven for Pixel phones though.
GoogleSellsAds@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
No, only Google has backdoors that are coming to light tome after time. Stop defending them Google ad fan boi.
Emerald@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is this trolling or are you for real?
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I fucking hate Google and wouldn’t use any of their (proprietary) software, but Pixel phones are amazing. Hear me out, Google is the only phone manufacturer right now, that puts extensive hardware security features like MTE, a secure element, as well as a bunch of others in their phones. The Google Titan M2 is based on an open-source project called OpenTitan, and Google has even contributed their own changes upstream. It’s based on the open RISC-V architecture, and it’s the most complete and secure implementation of a secure element that you can find in an Android phone. The only thing that comes even close is the “Secure Enclave” in Apple ARM chips, that are used in modern iPhones, iPads and Macs. I understand the concern about a potential backdoor in the firmware, but that’s a valid concern with basically every CPU on the market right now. x86 are ARM are completely proprietary, so you can’t really trust any CPU based on one of these architectures. The old Google Titan M1 was based on ARM, Apple’s Secure Enclave is also based on ARM, as well as Snapdragon’s SPU (which is incomplete and insecure anyway). The Titan M2, being based on open hardware architecture and firmware, is the most trustworthy secure element, despite being made by Google. It includes features like Insider Attack Resistance, support for the Weaver API, Android StrongBox hardware keystore implementation and is used for a secure implementation of Android Verified Boot. GrapheneOS is free, open-source, and doesn’t use any proprietary Google apps/services by default. Although I hate Google, a Pixel with GrapheneOS is currently the best option for a secure smartphone.
GoogleSellsAds@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Google fan boy. Good luck promoting that shitty ad company.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Ah yes, definitely promoting Google
I fucking hate Google and wouldn’t use any of their (proprietary) software
I hope you realize how dumb your comment is
irreticent@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Relevant username.
GoogleSellsAds@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
People don’t hate Google as much as they should. It’s cringeworthy how much they promote this ad company on this platform. They don’t even realze themselves they got comprised.