New podcast episode: Put some privacy in your smartphone! 📣 🎧
How can you use an Android smartphone while protecting your privacy? Who should you turn to for more privacy-friendly Android alternatives?
Can you install Linux on your phone?
With @fla from @Framasoft , we answer these questions!
👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/en/podcast/smartphone-put-privacy-in-your-smartphone/
#podcast #opensource #privacy #eos #iodeOS #calyxos #postmarketos #fairphone #commown #murena #ubuntutouch #grapheneos
@projetslibres_podcast @Framasoft @fla GrapheneOS heavily improves privacy compared to the Android Open Source Project in contrast with /e/ heavily reducing it.
GrapheneOS is far ahead of the standard pace for privacy patches instead of behind and we fix many privacy weaknesses ourselves. We've fixed a bunch of Android VPN leaks and many forms of data leaks to apps.
Since GrapheneOS is a serious privacy project, we have to put substantial work into security too because privacy depends on it.
@projetslibres_podcast @Framasoft @fla The domains they block are a tiny subset of domains used for those purposes and do not stop the most privacy invasive behavior by apps.
Apps and SDKs have also increasingly bypassed DNS blocklists via DNS-over-HTTPS resolvers, hard-wired IP addresses and most of all moving connecting to third party APIs to their servers where they don't need to leak their API keys.
DNS filtering works fine on GrapheneOS but isn't a viable approach to protecting privacy.
@projetslibres_podcast @Framasoft @fla Exodus Privacy uses a very similar approach to label apps as having trackers based on whether they include a library from a small list they've decided as trackers. Many of those decisions are dubious and it misses that the most privacy invasive behavior by apps isn't done that way. It also has extremely inaccurate labelling of permissions misleading users about how that works. Here's a great example of both with Facebook Lite:
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.facebook.lite/latest/
@projetslibres_podcast @Framasoft @fla /e/, Murena and their supporters have spent years misleading people about GrapheneOS. They heavily push the false claims that it isn't a privacy project, isn't usable, isn't broadly compatible with apps and isn't useful to regular people. /e/ and Murena have repeatedly claimed GrapheneOS is only useful to criminals and spies. Here's the leader of both /e/ and Murena stating that as a broader claim about hardening in general:
@FelixTheAnimator @GrapheneOS @projetslibres_podcast @Framasoft
You need to backup your data first and then put them back in the phone after the installation. If you're not too technical, I'm sure there can be someone in your area to help you.
@ideaferace @GrapheneOS Correcting false claims about the project is not bashing competitors, especially since projects like /e/OS, iodéOS, and CalyxOS which the GrapheneOS project account sometimes mentions aren't competitors to GrapheneOS, these projects are not what they claim to be.
As for the “brouhaha,” well, unfortunately that’s sometimes the effect of social media, but many people don’t visit the official website.
Some good source that might interest you :
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/grapheneos-der-goldstandard-unter-den-android-roms-custom-roms-teil7/
https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploring-grapheneos-secure-allocator-hardened-malloc
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666281726000053?via%3Dihub
An underestimated aspect of GrapheneOS : It provides a solid base for reducing addiction on social media and useless stuff.
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