Pixel 8A and Grapheneos
Pixel 8A and Grapheneos
Hello guys. I recently acquired a Pixel 8A and it was Google stock os I bought it from a man locally all with cash I brought It home and I flashed grapheneos onto this phone.
What else needs to be done to anonymous this phone and make it a privacy phone and a spy free phone no tracking phone no interception phone and no monitored phone.
Any advice welcome!
Thanks.
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anonymous [...] spy free phone no tracking phone no interception phone and no monitored phone
You can do absolutely nothing to achieve that, because it is supposed to be a phone, a communication device that connects to cell towers, GPS, Bluetooth devices and other things.
Most of the security measures in Graphene are something you can take with lots of Android devices, and is nothing exclusive to Pixel/Graphene fairy tales. Daniel Micay and his minions just love selling that combo as the only solution, and I frankly hate it as it has no basis in reality.
GrapheneOS officially supports and encourages the use of Google Play Services and a Google account for “security” purposes. Their “unofficial” members also spread propaganda advocating for the same.
https://i.imgur.com/bUdVCpH.jpg
They are also an embargo partner with Google for security patches, and add features that may threaten the lives of privacy users, or end up in jail or death in certain circumstances.
You might be better off using CalyxOS or LineageOS and putting the effort to learn things yourself, so you are not reliant on the non existent support of GrapheneOS toxic mods/heads. The former two will provide support, assistance, accept criticisms and things will be far smoother.
A far bigger thing you can do is work on your threat modelling, using something like my easy guide. https://lemmy.ml/post/34223
I agreed with you on your first line, but the rest of what you say is just horse shit. GrapheneOS is easily the most secure and private Android based OS that one can use. Whether or not you want to believe it is up to you. But the facts are there, from multiple security researchers to Edward Snowden embracing it, to CalyxOS being months late on Android security patches while GrapheneOS does it within a day, to LineageOS not allowing for a locked bootloader which decreases your security and prevents certain apps (banking apps) from running on it as a result, etc etc etc.
Are the developers of GrapheneOS a bit poor mannered? Yes. Especially Daniel Micay, but he stepped down as the GrapheneOS lead over a year ago after Louis Rossman's video came out calling out Daniel Micay. Think what you want about the developers but their product is simply the best there is and you are harming nobody but yourself by avoiding it. They don't get anything out of you using their product as it is entirely free. It's only you are missing out on the benefits of GrapheneOS.
But to each their own.
GrapheneOS is easily the most secure and private Android based OS that one can use. Whether or not you want to believe it is up to you. But the facts are there, from multiple security researchers to Edward Snowden embracing it,
The facts state that GrapheneOS is snake oil, and not at all "the most" best thing. Whether you want to believe it or not is upto you.
Snowden is not a security researcher or a security expert. He was a NSA contractor, nothing else. All he did is follow OPSEC properly and escaped successfully. This tells me you know nothing about security, privacy or OPSEC.
Are the developers of GrapheneOS a bit poor mannered? Yes. Especially Daniel Micay, but he stepped down as the GrapheneOS lead over a year ago after Louis Rossman's video came out calling out Daniel Micay.
If he stepped down, then why is he the only one making any commits to GrapheneOS project on Github? This again tells me you know absolutely nothing and are just a muppet. Micay is all about optics of deception and sugarcoating. And you are a believer of his cult.
It is incredible how you attempt to whitewash his disgusting, manipulative and charlatan behaviour by saying "a bit poor mannered". He is one of the worst creatures to have ever existed in FOSS space.
You might be interested in how they disseminate propaganda, something that might open your eyes. https://imgur.com/a/fpcsIL2 Or how Micay orders his minions to witch hunt and harass any critics on internet. https://i.imgur.com/nhepoMJ.jpg
Read the paper by Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix and C, on why we should be able to trust the developer and NOT the code. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
Know that they lie to the extent of going around in tech YouTuber comment sections and claim they have $1M Cellebrite Israeli toolkits to verify grapheneOS is safe against bootloader attacks like Evil Maid. https://i.imgur.com/woNxPhx.jpg
I have a whole dissertation chock full of citations and evidence on these security charlatans in privacy community, spanning 5 years.
https://old.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/ug9qnc/writeup_criticism_of_rprivacyguides_grapheneos/
It's only you are missing out on the benefits of GrapheneOS.
I'd rather be dead than use GrapheneOS, a project made by one of the most disgusting internet creatures I have ever seen. He deserves a thread on Kiwifarms.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/V9O94UTDAJQ
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I'm upset that GrapheneOS does not follow OpenBSD: ignore people likes you and work on any feature they want. On the 90s, the NetBSD core team expelled Theo de Raadt and revoked his access on the code which others could. On 2020s, you, not any core of GrapheneOS, trying to expell Micay from GrapheneOS's project leader role. Like what cia is doing to Viet Nam and China.
The problem with people like you is understanding the basic fundamental pillar the society stands on: collective effort. This is how society was built, this is how Linux was built and this is how your favourite BSD was built. If inputs, basic decency and criticism are ignored, then such projects/forks should be abolished to the valley of death. Same for any such individuals like Micay who believe in witch hunting, cultism and silencing people.
Laugh on your "basic decency and criticism".
then such projects/forks should be abolished to the valley of death
It seems these guys failed to abolish OpenBSD to death so they find an easier target: GrapheneOS. In fact, both project accept "inputs, basic decency and criticism". OpenBSD have a friendly connection with FreeBSD. But the os is make for their developers, and they can ignore whatever wideopenbsd or isopenbsdsecure without having problem, they can have the user to read man pages without having problems. On the linux world drama is caused by having user to read faq themselves, and Micay failed to ignore the dramas.
Same for any such individuals like Micay who believe in witch hunting, cultism and silencing people.
Micay is just dumb when he stepped down for your pleasure.
It seems these guys failed to abolish OpenBSD to death so they find an easier target: GrapheneOS
I have nothing bad to say about *BSD or Plan 9 or many projects that would seemingly "invite" criticism of the kind you are subtly trying to imply.
GrapheneOS is not even 1% of what those projects are. It is a very basic AOSP fork with mostly rebrandings and stuff you can achieve on your own on any non rooted Android phone model from the past 5 or so years.
On the linux world drama is caused by having user to read faq themselves
LOL. RTFM is not the solution to all of world's computing problems. You are too dense to understand this.
Micay is just dumb when he stepped down for your pleasure.
Ah yes it is okay to abuse autistic people's condition by hiding your asshole behaviour and targeted harassment behind "autism" label, right? Refusing to take criticism for your project and creating a cult to harass people on Internet is okay, according to you. Makes sense. Oh also I should just be able to faux claim a swatting attack on internet to gain empathy and hide all my years of horrible antics behind it too! And if someone allows my critics to talk, they cannot use my code else I will threaten to harass them on internet. (Micay has done this stuff just in case someone reading did not get it.)
Don't even read your reply, all I want to say is you are acting like what CIA, through whatever self-claimed civil society organizations or NGOs is doing to Viet Nam and China now.
