GrapheneOS is a custom Android fork with largely no security enhancements, besides UX rework and copypasting other security projects. They sell snake oil in the name of prestigious glory that FLOSS label carries.

https://np.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/v4wkon/i_guess_people_still_havent_forgotten/iba4og2/

Its lead developer (who became irrelevant in society) and his acolytes believe in purposely creating insane amounts of toxicity and drama to remain relevant in the privacy community. They baselessly label everyone with political epithets to defame everyone, and then scream “defamation” when a counter argument is presented to their manufactured position.

The long comment by official GrapheneOS account should be here: https://web.archive.org/web/20220502064114/https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/uged1y/is_grapheneos_actually_good_or_just_hype/

Recently someone informed me of them creating drama with Bromite (on which their Vanadium browser is based) and FlorisBoard projects. They labelled those project maintainers with very bad, false epithets.

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/pull/2102#issuecomment-1155760155

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2141

http://web.archive.org/web/20220803142758/https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/issues/1921

I had the opportunity to elaborate on the entire feature list of GrapheneOS, as per their website, last year. Look here. https://i.imgur.com/pQHoq84.jpg

There are only 3 things they ever did on their own as extras, and even they have basically no value in the grand scheme of things, them being offering:

• instead of 16 character, 64 character password limit on lockscreen
• PIN scrambling
• Morula method of exec spawning instead of Zygote method used in most AOSP projects

Now, I will elaborate on these 3.

• Elaborating on first one, it is kind of useless as you can see for obvious reasons.
• For second one, you already understand why fingerprint avoids the issue of someone peeping at your PIN/password entered across your shoulder. Fingerprint is infinitely superior. Even more so with Android and iOS both offering biometric Lockdown features.
• This one is somewhat half credible, but the goal is to destroy the memory blocks used by an app after it is exited, so that memory blocks do not retain essential text strings of data to exploit. For this, you can just go to Developer Options and enable “Don’t keep activities” and it will achieve the same effect as Morula method of exec spawning implemented by GrapheneOS.

So out of the 20-30 features GrapheneOS claims they developed, everything is either a modification of app permissions or firewalling or AOSP feature rebranding.

Also, as you may have famously heard about “Sandboxed Play Services”, it is not developed by GrapheneOS, but a project called ProtonAOSP, whose developer is kdrag0n. GrapheneOS copied that off and rebranded it as their own developed thing.

Recently someone informed me of them creating drama with Bromite (on which their Vanadium browser is based) and FlorisBoard projects. They labelled those project maintainers with very bad, false epithets.

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/pull/2102#issuecomment-1155760155

https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/2141

http://web.archive.org/web/20220803142758/https://github.com/florisboard/florisboard/issues/1921

Well, Braxman is not really about the useless services he offers. His commentary on privacy is fine, and there are a lot more scams like GrapheneOS that people need to worry about.

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It was always a lie to fool everyone thinking GrapheneOS is in the same race as XDA, Braxman and individual reflashed Pixel sellers, trying to capitalise on privacy market by selling a phone.

If you believe DMCAs ever got successfully enforced on wild west internet, I have a little whisper secret to share with you about digital piracy.

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Xiaomi lacks the patents and uses Qualcomm Snapdragon hardware. This is the same reason Honor will remain unaffected similar to Xiaomi. The goal was to destroy 5G patent pool of Huawei and prevent people from buying mainstream phones devoid of NSA backdoors.

Elaborate on these exceptions, sweetie. I want to know what is there in store for me.

Well idk about what or who are these tankies, but you are looking like a joke in this thread.

USA is always wrong. Add 2022 Ukraine and whatever countries from 1776 to 1899 yourself.

Yeah there was lots of actual murder from 2014-2022 you missed. Then you also missed Nazis painting blood swastikas on dead Russian womens’ chests. You are a little too late to the party.

You are too reactionary. Drink some water and go to sleep.

Libtears mmm yummy

Failed Balkanisation of Russia + communism refuses to lose against genocidal superimperialist capitalist Anglo Fascism

Basically L + ratio for Anglo empire, so they cope using media-military propaganda bullshittery everyday

READ.

Snapdrop and Wormhole, both on Fdroid

Nice projection, but you herald the immoral orientation of a neofascist by opposing Russian special operation.

Well now if you could stop being a neofascist, we could make more progress. And Anglosphere countries are effectively Nazi and Nazi allied/oriented currently, as per UN vote this month. I called you neofascist, not Nazi, and will call you latter when I spot those tendencies.

Too bad a neofascist like you wants to sing the tunes of Hitler even to this date, about how NSDAP was socialist. Right?

You can stop using internet right now. There are closed source bits of code in the JS you run off of websites natively. If you are not using LibreJS and IceCat, you have already been assimilated.