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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Well, the term 'fork' may not be used there with the exact software engineering context - it's more of 'inspiration'.
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They aren't the same thing. RattlesnakeOS explicitly doesn't include hardening. It's a set of scripts for making signed builds of AOSP on AWS. The #!os project is also focused on making scripting for building, aimed at making it easier to do reproducible builds, etc.
The original project is a privacy and security focused variant of the Android Open Source Project by developing substantial privacy and security improvements, and it's continuing. Due to the disaster that occurred, it was rebooted for Android P to do things in a better way.
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It lacks the resources to provide production quality releases and to quickly restore all of the past privacy and security work for Android P. However, it's progressing, and time taken to write a completely new hardened allocator already makes one part of it substantially better.
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Indeed! If you go through the article, these points are clearly mentioned. 🤓
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Yeah, the Rattlesnake and hashbang projects just shouldn't be called forks when they don't fork or continue the past work but rather develop scripting around AOSP builds. They do useful work, but it's not the same thing.