Trying to avoid Google when using android is like avoiding swimming when in the middle of a lake.
Doable but it'll end in sadness
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Another reason I’m still on iOS. I wouldn’t mind a phone that ran @ CopperheadOS though.
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I would avoid CopperheadOS. The lone developer who worked on it left after a legal spat with the owner....
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Yeah. The developer is working on a new CopperheadOS-like successor...
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The original open source project started before Copperhead continued under permissive licensing as GrapheneOS:
grapheneos.org
github.com/GrapheneOS
Auditor and AttestationServer are usable with stock OS on a bunch of devices too:
attestation.app/about
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I am aware that GrapheneOS is based on original source code from CopperheadOS before the legal spat, since you still had possession of the project.
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Yeah, I can see that you follow me, but most of the other people in the thread are probably not aware. The early funding and support from people who understood what happened allowed the project to continue and become GrapheneOS:
twitter.com/snowden/status
It was a very rough year.
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Since the project's Twitter account was seized by the company along with the infrastructure, they were able to very successfully cover up what happened and prevent the users / customers from finding out about the permissively licensed and free as beer continuation of the project.
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They've muddied the waters by pretending they developed it and are actively maintaining / developing it. You can verify they aren't. They even created a whole bunch of empty/inactive repositories on GitHub primarily to break redirects to AndroidHardening which is now GrapheneOS.
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For example, github . com/copperhead/Auditor breaks redirect to github.com/AndroidHardeni, which redirects to github.com/AndroidHardeni and then the final location at github.com/GrapheneOS/Aud. One day I hope to get control of the former Twitter, domain and GitHub to redirect it all.
