Do you guys trust Graphene OS? Could be a juicy honeypot to have all the geeks on the same OS.
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plus it's not like there aren't alternatives although the rest need a lot of improvements to catch up :)
And you have to trust google pixel terminals as well. Dont think Google is as stupid to send the easiest to hack phone and leave it be 😄 For sure there must be good provision of hardware backdoors
At least not for the gov in my country.
You don't have to trust it if it's foss and you can build it yourself.
There has definitely been at least an attempt to hijack it. The history is pretty complex, and personally I believe the original founder (Daniel Micay) is eccentric but was indeed the target of a takeover attempt, firstly by parties at CopperheadOS and then later from all sides including the YT channel Techlore. He still seems to be writing code for the project (his Github is full of commits for GrapheneOS) despite the website history page badmouthing him and saying he left. The name change is suspect, it wasn't originally called Graphene, which is the main component of nano technology that is part of the 'medicines' with an aim to transhumanism (and control/monitoring of all humans in the interim), see Dr Ana Mihalcea, Karen Kingston (ex Pfizer bio-analyst), and the many other doctors that have researched this. However, it still seems feasible that the core developer team is fighting for privacy and hasn't been corrupted, may be worth reaching out to Daniel Micay to see whether this is the case?
Please read what we posted as a project and what Daniel posted. It does not say that he's leaving the project. It says he's stepping down from public and leadership roles due to harassment. It has been misinterpreted elsewhere. Our words are the only source that should be used.
Daniel stepped down due to an intense harassment, bullying and character assassination campaign which had recently escalating to swatting attacks followed by a major influencer jumping on board with the attacks. Attacks have continued and even escalated in some ways since then, including the admin of a Mastodon instance related to a popular podcast deciding without provocation or having any previous interaction with the project deciding to take part.
We didn't announce that anyone is leaving the project as it has been misinterpreted elsewhere. The aim was protecting Daniel from further harassment, not abandoning him to it.
Daniel is still a GrapheneOS developer. Our hope is that he won't be targeted nearly as much if he doesn't have much of a public role in the project and isn't the leader of the organization or the open source project. Harassment and fabrications targeting him became very extreme.
That hope however continues to be challenged to extremis.
Also regards the idea the project is a honeypot one of the reasons behind the split from the projects sponsor under the Copperhead branding was due to the takeover attempt being tied to a Raytheon contract the company sponsoring the project under the Copperhead branding was chasing.
Daniel removing their access to the code lead directly to this Raytheon deal falling through. Contract required compromising security of the infrastructure. He protected people from this.
It was directly in contravention to the values and principles Daniel and the GrapheneOS project stand for. This wasn't what started our open source project down the path of splitting from that company but it finished it.
Thank you for the clarification, glad to know the project is in good hands
Why was the name Graphene chosen?
Graphene is a 2D sheet of carbon atoms forming an extremely strong and thin material. The properties of the material make it a fitting name for the project.
You can easily make small amounts of graphene yourself that way. It's not an exotic material. It's only hard to make a large sheet of it. It was a neat name for this project based on the simplicity and yet immense strength of it.
The previous name being Android Hardening Project it made sense to evolve the branding this way.
It has no relation to any biological applications that people might infer.
Cool just checking haha I have looked into making some by baking sugar bound in pvc