"securing a Google Pixel Phone" would be a more appropriate headline.
anyone without a pixel, this guide will do nothing for you.
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2024
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That is to say you can't secure a non pixel Android phone
why not?
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.
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Support for using alternate operating systems including full hardware security functionality
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Complete monthly Android Security Bulletin patches without any regular delays longer than a week
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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)
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Isolated radios (cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC, etc.), GPU, SSD, media encode / decode, image processor and other components
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Is google pixel the only group capable of making a secure phone? No, anyone could do it, but only google pixel IS doing it.
this is far more interesting than the article. thank you very much.
Thank you for sharing!
Great article. I think graphene OS is irreplaceable in my life at this point.