I wish sandboxing was standard at this point. Things would be a lot more secure if you had to explicitly set up apps to share data or access specific files. I bet if it was standardized well, it wouldn’t even be a pain to handle like permissions can sometimes be. On windows, my pains were more around how the hell do I give/get access to these files than being upset at the need to do so in the first place.
20 years ago me would have hated it, but 20 years ago me was kinda dumb about many things including “if a big company produced this, the only thing I need to worry about is bugs because they wouldn’t betray a customer’s trust!”
It won’t give you the same level of exploit protection as GrapheneOS on proper hardware does, but it’s ten times better than running any other OS on the very same hardware.
UPD: Just read through it, due to GSI, they’ve stripped almost all strongest protections from GrapheneOS. It probably still be more secure and private than any other OS given the same hardware (and obviously, assuming the code hasn’t been tampered with malicious intent).
How useful is it to run a Graphene derivative in a device without the required safety hardware?
there are useful grapheneos features like sandboxed google play
I wish sandboxing was standard at this point. Things would be a lot more secure if you had to explicitly set up apps to share data or access specific files. I bet if it was standardized well, it wouldn’t even be a pain to handle like permissions can sometimes be. On windows, my pains were more around how the hell do I give/get access to these files than being upset at the need to do so in the first place.
20 years ago me would have hated it, but 20 years ago me was kinda dumb about many things including “if a big company produced this, the only thing I need to worry about is bugs because they wouldn’t betray a customer’s trust!”
20 years ago if had a little more truth to that. A little.
I see. If I ever get to change my main device, I’ll consider to unlock the bootloader and try this
It won’t give you the same level of exploit protection as GrapheneOS on proper hardware does, but it’s ten times better than running any other OS on the very same hardware.
UPD: Just read through it, due to GSI, they’ve stripped almost all strongest protections from GrapheneOS. It probably still be more secure and private than any other OS given the same hardware (and obviously, assuming the code hasn’t been tampered with malicious intent).