> “he used GrapheneOS” is 100% going to be used against you in court.
I look forward to using this as a litmus test for legal representation.
A. The builds match the code?
B. The NSA hasn’t stolen the signing key and isn’t feeding you customized images?
True, you can’t verify that with iOS or Android either. I am saying though that trusting my security because it’s safer… by being in some guy’s garage feels like an odd trade. One that shouldn’t be casually ignored, at least.
For the rest of us, who just want to be violated less, we have to choose our poison. The corporate options are shameless violators, and the alternatives are gambles.
Weakest link in the chain and all that. There are just a lot fewer links in the chain. More likely that a vuln is introduced as part of Android and makes its way into GrapheneOS than directly into a tiny project.
Your comment is basically "is it perfect? No? Then it's not better".
There was a university that received a bomb threat over Tor. They found one student who used Tor on the network at around the right time, and because he was the only Tor user, he’s in jail for a very, very long time. That kid was at Harvard, his persuer the FBI.
If you are going to use GrapheneOS, don’t be naive and think it will make you agency-proof. If anything it probably flags you to their attention.
Please.
It actually put a little fear in me because I look around and not a lot of internet users in my small hell hole of an open prison I call home and i was like "dude. You're like a alert beacon screaming here is a tor user, check him out".
I was using tor at the time and that is the last day I used it because this use case fit me somewhat. Not for sending bomb threats but because the nature of surveillance, I am a target of the government so any outlier gets flagged pretty hard.
Let's give some credit to Daniel Micay and assume he isn't coding this by himself, especially after the CopperheadOS debacle.[0]
Also Daniel Micay no longer works on the project.
This isn't true. He stepped down as lead dev. Still one of the main contributors
