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Revolut, McDonald's, and Authy have banned the use of GrapheneOS. (grapheneos.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15995282

Real unfortunate news for GrapheneOS users as Revolut has decided to ban the use of 'non-google' approved OSes. This is currently being posted about and updated by GrahpeneOS over at Bluesky for those who want to follow it more closely.

Edit: had to change the title, originally it said Uber too but I cannot find back to the source of ether that's true or not..

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There is absolutely no problem with that. The phone is wiped and encrypted when you flash graphene, and it does an integrity check every time it boots.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hypothetically the hardware could have been modified, but that would take some insane level of a determined attacker to be fabricating modified pixels just to sell them on the used market.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yes, this would only be a concern for targeted attacks by state actors, in which case not even buying new would be safe.

Thinking about it, in such a scenario buying used may even be safer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It also comes with a hardware auditor, although you need another trusted graphene phone to use it. I don't know about the details, but sounds very hard to mess with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

although you need another trusted graphene phone to use it

No, Auditor can be installed on any Android phone. It's even available on the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.attestation.auditor.play

You can even perform a remote verification, which uses GrapheneOS servers and doesn't require a second device at all: https://attestation.app/tutorial#scheduled-remote-verification

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Nothing too hypothetical nor an "insane" level of work. Didn't Israel do just that with some beepers to blow up children?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

And you can even use the GrapheneOS Auditor app to perform a manual verification of the OS.