Privacy focused Android fork CopperheadOS became dead after the developer was fired. New forks like RattlesnakeOS, #!os or Android Hardening are available.
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RattlesnakeOS and #!os are NOT forks and are not developing privacy and security hardening features. The AndroidHardening project is not a fork either. It's the original project by the original development team, although it has been rebooted for Android P to do everything better.
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The hardened_malloc project isn't a fork or port of OpenBSD malloc. It's a new allocator written from scratch to provide better performance and substantially better security than the past work on making an extended fork of OpenBSD malloc with additional security features.
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It's heavily inspired by OpenBSD malloc along with borrowing ideas from other allocators like jemalloc and PartitionAlloc. It's a much different allocator than OpenBSD malloc. It has much different design choices and approaches to the core design and is inherently 64-bit only.
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github.com/AndroidHardeni and the other repositories are the originals, with past history split out into github.com/AndroidHardeni. Look at the forks and you can see this is the original project:
github.com/AndroidHardeni
Copperhead forked the project but doesn't develop anything.
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They haven't ported it to Android Pie, which was supposed to happen in August 2018. They haven't kept up with the security updates, and they haven't continued developing or maintaining the privacy and security features. The project didn't die though. It continued on without them.
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They forked a subset of the project and did essentially nothing from June until now. It's approaching a year of Copperhead not doing privacy and security work. The Auditor app was continued too, and is production ready: github.com/AndroidHardeni. They have no fork of those things.
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For example, look at repositories like github.com/copperhead/Aud. They simply created empty repositories out of spite to break the redirects to the originals at the AndroidHardening project since the original repositories were all moved as part of a rebranding, not forked.
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They eventually uploaded a fork of a subset of my work, in violation of the licensing terms used by the previous project. However, they still have many empty repositories and they only have a small subset of my overall work. Everything they have is obsolete and unmaintained too.