But as long as your phone is turned on, even with "location permissions" disabled, the radios in the phone that connect it to all the nice things you like are screaming into the air, reporting your presence to nearby cell towers, which then create records that are kept forever.
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Software is equally important. The iOS and Android operating systems that run on nearly every smartphone conceal uncountable numbers of programming flaws, known as security vulnerabilities, that mean common apps like iMessage or web browsers become dangerous: you can be hacked.
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If I were configuring a smartphone today, I'd use 's as the base operating system. I'd desolder the microphones and keep the radios (cellular, wifi, and bluetooth) turned off when I didn't need them. I would route traffic through the network.
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It doesn't support the Nexus 6P anymore since that device doesn't meet the security standards and is also end-of-life without full security updates available. It has never supported it while being known as AndroidHardening or GrapheneOS, only during the previous incarnation.
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The Librem 5 doesn't meet the basic security expectations of GrapheneOS including having full security updates. It will ship on day one with serious vulnerabilities and no way to fix them. Similarly, it doesn't meet a lot of other standard privacy/security expectations either.
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It's a hard requirement for devices to meet certain basic security standards including having full security updates and meeting the other industry standards. GrapheneOS won't provide official upstream support for hardware targets significantly less secure than the status quo.
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GrapheneOS can certainly be ported to the device. However, it does not meet the requirements needed to provide a real GrapheneOS device. It will never receive official support. If a future generation meets the basic security standards, that could change, but it likely never will.
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The most that will happen is an unofficial port under a different name. You're better off having the basics like full security updates, verified boot and other assorted fundamentals than a subset of the GrapheneOS hardening on a device without that. It just wouldn't make sense.