willington comments on GrapheneOS says Google is making life harder for rival operating systems and devices

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

if other phones met GrapheneOS' security standards

This rhetoric is not OK.

Obviously security is important, but so is not financially aiding and abetting your enemy.

Graphene people are deeply unserious if they can't understand the urgency of both points.

GrapheneOS needs to settle on the 2nd most secure system after Google, if Google is really the #1.

Cut Google's hardware out NOW.

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

The only thing worse than no security is a false sense of security. It's better for someone to know they're using an untrustworthy device than to find out the hard way.

If other phones can't provide an acceptable baseline level of security, the GrapheneOS devs are correct to not support them. Yes, it sucks that the only phones supported are Google Pixels. They have a partnership with Motorola to create a non-Google alternative.

If you still don't like it, fork it.

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[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

Is security of hardware pass or fail? And only Pixel passes while all other phones fail?

What makes Pixel so drastically preferrable?

I am starting to doubt GrapheneOS judgement here.

You're saying even the 2nd best phone is a fail. I don't buy it. Can a security researcher please comment?

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