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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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What’s stopping the developer to put a backdoor in it and collaborate with the CIA and the NSA?
Nothing. But what’s stopping you from checking out the source code?
A libre software license.
The fact that the system is open source
Nothing
Although it probably would be easier to attack the modem
That’s why the modem is isolated from the rest of the system through IOMMU: https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation
In my personal opinion, privacy-oriented distributions are more likely to be targeted by intelligence agencies, I prefer a mainstream debloated version at least that way you have the advantage of not attracting attention among so many millions of users. trusting your OpSec in the good will of someone it’s not a good idea, at least for me.
If depends on what you mean by “privacy centric”
Your logic is quite flawed.
Since GrapheneOS is based on Android (AOSP), any vulnerability that exists in Graphene definitely also exists in AOSP. Graphene is often faster at fixing security vulnerabilities than Google. GrapheneOS makes some substantial security improvements to AOSP, so the chance of a bug in AOSP being exploitable in Graphene is much lower.
That’s literally what you’re doing with the stock OS. Since it’s proprietary, no one can actually verify what’s actually going on. You’re literally trusting a billion-dollar big tech advertising corporation that participates In the NSA PRISM program. What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense.