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Hello guys. I recently acquired a Pixel 8A and it was Google stock os I bought it from a man locally all with cash I brought It home and I flashed grapheneos onto this phone.

What else needs to be done to anonymous this phone and make it a privacy phone and a spy free phone no tracking phone no interception phone and no monitored phone.

Any advice welcome!

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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I'm a bit upset that GrapheneOS does not follow OpenBSD: ignore any person hating it, ignore anyone who wants to interferes with project personnel and donations like usa is doing on Viet Nam like they are speaking for the Vietnamese, and don't care if the feature works "for you" or not, just going on code improvements & maximally free code. And do whatever Micay want to do. Accept donations from whatever company. There's so much dramas. But they already achieved over-detailed documentations. Focusing on unprivileged google play is the true path, since the demand on google play is much larger and other "private" apps repos are expected to work on the "privacy" people's phone.

Maybe because GrapheneOS haven't made any world-significant project that every companies depend on so that companies have to put so much money on the project.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

anonymous [...] spy free phone no tracking phone no interception phone and no monitored phone

You can do absolutely nothing to achieve that, because it is supposed to be a phone, a communication device that connects to cell towers, GPS, Bluetooth devices and other things.

Most of the security measures in Graphene are something you can take with lots of Android devices, and is nothing exclusive to Pixel/Graphene fairy tales. Daniel Micay and his minions just love selling that combo as the only solution, and I frankly hate it as it has no basis in reality.

GrapheneOS officially supports and encourages the use of Google Play Services and a Google account for “security” purposes. Their “unofficial” members also spread propaganda advocating for the same.

https://i.imgur.com/bUdVCpH.jpg

They are also an embargo partner with Google for security patches, and add features that may threaten the lives of privacy users, or end up in jail or death in certain circumstances.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220829223401/https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1564322206414524420#m

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/pjl4bh/what_is_your_opinion_of_grapheneos_conforming_to/

You might be better off using CalyxOS or LineageOS and putting the effort to learn things yourself, so you are not reliant on the non existent support of GrapheneOS toxic mods/heads. The former two will provide support, assistance, accept criticisms and things will be far smoother.

A far bigger thing you can do is work on your threat modelling, using something like my easy guide. https://lemmy.ml/post/34223

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