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Your smartphone transmits your location to corporate servers every 4.5 minutes, even when you've explicitly opted out. It knows which medical clinics you visit, which protests you attend, and which friends you spend nights with, and this information is sold to data brokers, advertisers, and government agencies without meaningful consent. GrapheneOS is an open-source operating system that transforms Google Pixel hardware into a private device under your control, one that has proven resistant to Cellebrite forensic extraction tools used by law enforcement worldwide. This guide covers the surveillance problem, the technical architecture that solves it, and a complete walkthrough from installation to hardened configuration with privacy-respecting applications.
User's avatar npub1klkk...x3vt
Your Phone Is Not Your Property (Until You Install GrapheneOS)
Your smartphone surveils you by design. GrapheneOS transforms a Pixel into private hardware you actually control. Here's why it matters and how to do it.
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Been experiencing a lot of issues with my grapheneos ever since I plugged to charge in a rental car :/ anytime my battery dies it takes a massive amount of effort to turn it back on and always stalls on the grapheneos logo just sits there and I have to pres power and sound buttons to restart and then pause for it to first regain charge before powering. It's weird and frustrating. I think I've been hacked. I woke up today wanting to just juke it.... Like reset from ground 0 but unsure how yet.
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User's avatar npub1rql3...30kr
----------------------------------------- PoW Ready to Prepare 001 ----------------------------------------- image 🏁 Enjoying looking for the best pixel offer in markets. 35' connecting and flashing 45' downloading the set up of app's ▶️ Markets F Droid Accrescent Aurora Store Zapstore ▶️ Privacy Tools Exif eraser Scramble Egg Image tool Privacy blur ▶️ Maps Organic maps OpenStreet Maps ▶️ Tor Tor browser Orbot ▶️ Vpn Ivpn Proton vpn Mullvad ▶️ Browser Privacy set up of: Vanadium Brave ▶️ Dns Rethink Dns Nextdns And few more surprises 🤠 ✅ Plug and play. Ready to Prepare. Would you like exploring how life is much safer with @GrapheneOS ? #technology #privacy #freedom
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Does one totally negate the benefits of using a “privacy phone” if they are constantly in the company of people who are using Swiss cheese devices and apps? I can’t even get my circle of people to adopt encrypted chat apps and get the fuck off Fakebook. Seems pointless to get all James Bond, other than as an educational exercise, when surrounded by data leakers and outright big tech platform shit posters. #asknostr
I also switched to Graphene a couple of months now and it is surprisingly good. Maybe it is because I use anyway a lot of Open source tools. Everything exists maybe not that convenient but it works. Honestly the only thing I really miss is pay by Google pay and I know it is silly because it tracks every transaction to create a nice profile but it was so darn convenient.
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Now I'll freely admit, I don't know much about chip design, but I watched something a long while back where someone showed that there are parts of chips which aren't made clear on manufacturer's details, posts which aren't clarified. That's what got me thinking... Why would Google, who were founded for the purpose of mass surveillance, provide a tool which can bypass it? It doesn't make sense. So if another company is going to make hardware which Graphene will work with, I'd be much more interested to learn more. All the while it's on Google hardware it's not for me. They can watch me openly, like they currently do, on Amdroid.
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The Pixel 8's Tensor G3 chip pairs with an upgraded Titan M2 security coprocessor to isolate sensitive cryptographic operations, while introducing Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) support for runtime detection of memory corruption vulnerabilities and significantly hardening the cellular baseband firmware with bounds sanitizers, integer overflow protection, stack canaries, and control flow integrity to reduce what has historically been a major attack surface. That's a major improvement compared to the 7 or earlier generations.