It's been far too long since I've made time to sit down and write. I recently went through the ritual of swapping phones, so I will use the opportunity to jot some notes down. I keep separate devices for work and personal usage. For the last several years, my personal
  • jetAEnglish
    31·
    6 months ago

    That is to say you can’t secure a non pixel Android phone

      • jetAEnglish
        62·
        6 months ago

        https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

        Hardware, firmware and software specific to devices like drivers play a huge role in the overall security of a device. The goal of the project is not to slightly improve some aspects of insecure devices and supporting a broad set of devices would be directly counter to the values of the project. A lot of the low-level work also ends up being fairly tied to the hardware.

        TLDR - Google open bootloader, able to relock the bootloader with custom keys, AOSP, hardware binaries freely accessible, as well as the hardware security features on pixel phones.

        Selected Items

        • Support for using alternate operating systems including full hardware security functionality

        • Complete monthly Android Security Bulletin patches without any regular delays longer than a week

        • Vendor code updated to new monthly, quarterly and yearly releases of AOSP within several months to provide new security improvements (Pixels receive these in the month they’re released)

        • Isolated radios (cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, etc.), GPU, SSD, media encode / decode, image processor and other components

        …

        Is google pixel the only group capable of making a secure phone? No, anyone could do it, but only google pixel IS doing it.