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ANDROID 14 SITUATIONAL UPDATE:

Stable release of Android 14 is expected to be released in early October. We've spent months preparing for it and we've completed a lot of porting in advance. This has been much more difficult than it should be since we have to rely on unofficial access to pre-launch sources.

Stable releases of Android are open source. Pixel stock OS source tree matches the AOSP source tree with additional private repositories added for the Google/Pixel components/overlays. Beta releases and the development branches are mostly internal. Most isn't done in AOSP main.

The Android security team wanted to collaborate with us and gave us security partner access. We hoped this would lead to us getting full partner access so that we could port to new major releases much earlier with the ability to build and test nearly all of the port in advance.

The engineering side appreciates our work and multiple prominent people have tried to get full partner access for the GrapheneOS Foundation. Android's business side had our security partner access revoked and blocked progress. We've decided to stop making upstream contributions.

Many of the privacy and security features we're built could be included in Android. It was always difficult to contribute without partner access, but we put in significant effort and achieved some positive results. We also reported a lot of firmware and software vulnerabilities.

Not having partner access makes quickly porting to major releases into an ordeal, but we still have to do it for security reasons. We only managed to have it done within around a week of launch of Android 13 and past releases via superhuman amounts of work hours and productivity.

Our policy for upstream Android vulnerabilities we discover has become fixing them downstream ASAP with a clear explanation in our release notes for the release including them. Filing a report upstream hasn't been part of our process for a while due to their related decisions.

We've deferred shipping most of our newly developed features until after Android 14 including duress PIN/password and several new per-app toggles for enabling additional security features we already had implemented but couldn't enable globally due to some apps being incompatible.

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I've just received a grant of $25,000 USD (in Bitcoin) to work alongside the Human Rights Foundation educating political dissidents around how to use BTC. I'm very humbled and excited.

Rather than focus on me for this post though, I want to take you on a journey regarding one of the stories I've witnessed at the Oslo Freedom Forum that has had the most impact on me.

In Oslo 2022, I watched a woman take the stage and talk about her activist husband who had been abducted and imprisoned in Nicaragua, leaving their daughter fatherless, as they had no contact with him at all.

I also met a wonderful woman learning about Bitcoin wallets for the first time, as a way to fundraise and get money into countries where dissident bank accounts would be shut down.

A year later I returned to Oslo and learned two things.

1. The woman I spoke with/coached and the woman onstage were the same person. Her name is Berta Maradiaga.

2. Due to the efforts of the HRF her husband Felix had been freed and returned to them for the first time in 3 years. They even showed a video of his daughter's tearful first reunion.

I encourage you to watch all 3 videos here. It is a harrowing story and it emotionally broke me watching it play out in real time. I got to spend a bunch of time with Berta recently at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, and she continues to learn about BTC and how it can be used to further their cause. She is wonderful.

Grab your tissues.

Felix In Oslo 2019 (Before being imprisoned)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KtoWHNLw-o

Berta in Oslo 2022 (Pleading for help to release her husband)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AicUo9hVlI

Felix Returning To Oslo 2023 (after his release and reunion)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUnDCR5mgLg

how cool, congrats🎉🎉