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I'm assuming your talking about AOSP? Basically anything that's privacy or freedom oriented such as Graphene, Calyx or Divested OS.
Can any of them prevent a Pegasus-style attack?
If I understand correctly, Apple does it by disabling common attack vectors, remote fonts for example.
No. Even iOS (even with lockdown mode) can definitely still be hacked.
Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know what he's talking about.
If you're being targeted by someone with access to Pegasus-style spyware, you need more than consumer-level protection.
You'd need to always keep your phone in airplane mode, and maybe either use a mobile provider that works horrible with GrapheneOS, or change your mobile strength to like 3G, you can completely lose calls and texts when in airplane mode at that point, you'll never get them, maybe you can stop the Pegasus attack.
Or, don't use a phone number, rely on encrypted messaging. But if you must have some number, you could have 2 phones, one with just the phone number and sim card, then the other phone with Signal so your private phone shouldn't be compromised.
Those are the only ways I can think of trying to resist it.
I mean they could use usb booted TailsOS and encrypted messengers like session, matrix, signal, etc.
Is there a way to USB boot Tails on a phone?
No I meant like on a laptop. Grapheneos might be the safest thing on mobile but I would rather to tailsos on a pc if I had to choose