• Goku@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      28
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      11 months ago
      1. Quarantined google play services on an alternate profile was a big sell for me. I don’t use anything google related in my day to day but occasionally I need traffic updates or alternative routes and I’m forced to use google maps. There’s a few other exceptions where I very rarely will need to use google play services.

      In those situations, I can boot to an alternate profile for each app I need to use, and I know google is unable to harvest the majority of my data.

      1. GrapheneOS has hardened security compared to lineageOS.

      2. LineageOS did some type of takeover on cyanogenmod and I forget the details but I remember the whole situation left a sour taste in my mouth.

      • S410@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        24
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        11 months ago

        Considering the lead developer of GrapheneOS bans anyone from their chat for asking how an Android phone with GrapheneOS compares to a non-android phone, such as a PinePhone or Librem 5, in terms of security, because, according to said developer, PhonePhone and Librem5 are “scam products” and even asking questions about them is “spreading misinformation” and “promotion of fraud”, I’d be quite, quite vary of the claims GrapheneOS developers make about its security.

        • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          15
          ·
          11 months ago

          The lead dev stepped down months ago, and the main thing with non-Pixel phones are the lack of security which is why only Pixels are currently supported.

        • Goku@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          11 months ago

          Which chat, the matrix channel?

          That is pretty infuriating honestly.

        • HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          11 months ago

          Isn’t Librem the one so slow to ship products and do refunds thereafter, it’s basically a scam? Yes, it is. It’s the Purism scam company. I watched a video on it. It was informative and unfortunate.

          GrapheneOS is good apparently, even though I’m wary of the idea that a phone that Google sells could ever be secure…

          • Goku@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            11 months ago

            The only parts of this phone not open source are google proprietary drivers for the hardware. I highly doubt those are compromised.

            I’m pretty confident my Pixel 6 is not phoning home to the mother ship.

            Edit: and I guess whatever grub/bootloader is on here might also be closed source, not sure.

          • S410@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            18
            ·
            11 months ago

            Reviewing the source code of an entire operating system is not a task doable by a single person, particularly when that person is not an expert in the field.

            A proper code audit needs to be done by a team of professionals capable of spotting things like actual security vulnerabilities and logic errors that might result in more data being exposed, than advertised.

            • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              11 months ago

              Meh. If someones willing to pay to do that it’ll be interesting. Skepticism is good but accusing with no concrete proof is not nice

              • S410@kbin.social
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                8
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                edit-2
                11 months ago

                “Accusing with no concrete proof” is exactly what GrapheneOS developers are doing in regards to other projects. Claiming other products are a scam, particularly when those products somewhat compete with yours, is a pretty big red flag.

                • Hiro8811@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  11 months ago

                  Is that so. I don’t known the full story but I did heard something about librem being a scam. Either way both of them seem shady so I’ll look more into it

                • h3ndrik@feddit.de
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  11 months ago

                  You missed that GrapheneOS got rid of Daniel Micay 6 months ago. (For the better or worse)

                  • FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    4
                    ·
                    11 months ago

                    To be clear, GrapheneOS did not “get rid” of Daniel. Daniel stepped down as lead dev and shifted some of his roles to other devs. He still contributes code to GOS.

                  • S410@kbin.social
                    link
                    fedilink
                    arrow-up
                    3
                    arrow-down
                    1
                    ·
                    11 months ago

                    I’ve heard that he passed some of his duties onto other people.

                    However, I’m not aware of anyone within the team criticizing his behavior or statements, which, while might be a bit of a stretch, likely implies that everyone related to the project, at the very least, tolerates, if not outright shares the the views.

                    I find it practically impossible to trust claims of people like that, to be honest.

      • Lmaydev@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        11 months ago

        They forked it when it was announced they were going to shut it down. Not sure what the issue with that is.

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        11 months ago

        LineageOS did some type of takeover on cyanogenmod and I forget the details but I remember the whole situation left a sour taste in my mouth.

        CyanogenMod was the one that went commercial and was shut down. LineageOS is the continuation of the original vision. Kinda like OpenOffice vs LibreOffice.

        In 2013, the founder, Stefanie Jane,[11][12] obtained venture funding under the name Cyanogen Inc. to allow commercialization of the project.[1][13] However, the company did not, in her view, capitalize on the project’s success, and in 2016 she left or was forced out[14] as part of a corporate restructure, which involved a change of CEO, closure of offices and projects, and cessation of services,[15][16] and therefore left uncertainty over the future of the company. The code itself, being open source, was later forked, and its development continues as a community project under the LineageOS name.