grapheneos

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by grapheneos 3d ago
We've previously emailed them with no result. This time around we got a reply about this specific account targeting us but it isn't resolved. We don't have much optimism about getting the many past threads with personal attac
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by grapheneos 4d ago
We definitely will have to keep up with the changes. We already do in order to provide support for using RCS via Google Messages on GrapheneOS. Recently, they made a change which broke it on GrapheneOS and we had to quickly fix that in unde
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by grapheneos 4d ago
The past several weeks of our replies were wrongly flagged. None of our posts were in any way inappropriate and it's entirely appropriate to ask for help getting it undone. On the other hand, you're repeatedly making personal atta
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by grapheneos 4d ago
> I am not sure why all your comments are flagged The past couple weeks of our replies were maliciously flagged. We've made a post about it on social media as we've had to do before when this happens. This happens very regularl
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by grapheneos 4d ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49672677 .
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by grapheneos 4d ago
This is the email we received: Hello Check: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096839 Please upvote/comment/share/mitigate We passed it along to our developer working on solving VPN leaks
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by grapheneos 4d ago
Google considers VPN leaks to be valid bugs but unfortunately doesn't consider them security bugs. Internal issues are created for any issue report considered valid. The external one is only used to communicate with people. If it was f
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by grapheneos 4d ago
Google considers VPN leaks to be valid bugs but unfortunately doesn't consider them security bugs. Internal issues are created for any issue report considered valid. The external one is only used to communicate with people. If it was f
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by grapheneos 4d ago
Security issues considered outside the scope of what they consider a security vulnerability are closed regardless of what they plan to do about the issue. Google primarily uses internal issues to track issues with Android. Public issues and
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by grapheneos 4d ago
They lag 1-2 months behind the Android Security Bulletins which are months behind when patches can first be shipped by vendors. Verifying their kernels for the FP5 and earlier are end-of-life can be done by looking at the code. It's st
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by grapheneos 5d ago
There's nearly no information available on the working conditions, pay or environmental impact of Fairphones. T2Mobile is the company designing and making Fairphones since the Fairphone 4 and little information is available on them. Fa
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by grapheneos 5d ago
> might want the option of using a build of grapheneos An OS without the core features and updates of GrapheneOS clearly isn't GrapheneOS. It's not permitted to refer to it as such. > That's kind of the whole point of F
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by grapheneos 5d ago
RCS already works on GrapheneOS via Google Messages using sandboxed Google Play. We have an ICC authentication toggle for granting the required access to Google Play services. We want to provide our own implementation within our Messaging a
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by grapheneos 5d ago
It may take a long time to make a fully standalone implementation and that may not be compatible with most carriers. However, we plan to provide it in the short term through support for using the Google RCS infrastructure. We can have it st
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by grapheneos 5d ago
GrapheneOS already supports using Google Messages with RCS. Google Messages is essentially the only RCS app for Android and it's the only one supporting end-to-end encryption. There were other apps such as a Samsung one but they died o
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by grapheneos 5d ago
We've announced our plan to add RCS with Messaging Layer Security (MLS) for E2EE compatible with Google Messages and iOS. SMS/MMS will only be a fallback once that's implemented.
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by grapheneos 5d ago
We've announced our plan to add RCS with Messaging Layer Security (MLS) for E2EE compatible with Google Messages and iOS. SMS/MMS will only be a fallback once that's implemented. Google Messages is essentially the only remain
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by grapheneos 5d ago
They're incorrect, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49669964 .
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by grapheneos 5d ago
We've announced our plan to add RCS with Messaging Layer Security (MLS) for E2EE compatible with Google Messages and iOS. SMS/MMS will only be a fallback once that's implemented.
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by grapheneos 5d ago
It's not an article but rather release notes for people who already use it. The app is only available to users on GrapheneOS as the default SMS/MMS app (eventually RCS). Our users try out the new version directly instead of lookin
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by grapheneos 5d ago
A video would be needed rather than screenshots since those wouldn't show the new animations and UI flow. GrapheneOS users can update to it via the Alpha channel and try it out rather than looking at screenshots. There's still mor
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by grapheneos 5d ago
We've announced our plan to add RCS with Messaging Layer Security (MLS) for E2EE compatible with Google Messages and iOS. SMS/MMS will only be a fallback once that's implemented.
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by grapheneos 5d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49669636
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by grapheneos 5d ago
An incredibly incomplete port without many of the core security features and decent updates is not GrapheneOS. It isn't possible to bring GrapheneOS to Fairphone devices. > It's not as though we're talking about a device w
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by grapheneos 5d ago
> as far as SMS/MMS can be secure We've announced our plan to add RCS with Messaging Layer Security (MLS) for E2EE compatible with Google Messages and iOS. > GOS got a big donation We receive large donations on an ongoing ba
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by grapheneos 5d ago
Our server infrastructure costs around $200/month. All of our dedicated servers are sponsored. If we had to replace all of the current sponsored servers then we could scale it back a bit and keep the cost around $2000/month for th
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by grapheneos 5d ago
GrapheneOS is entirely funded by donations. We're not yet spending nearly enough yet relative to the amount of donations we're receiving.
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by grapheneos 5d ago
Providing it via the built-in Messaging app is planned but not straightforward to implement since it's not an open platform. GrapheneOS has official support for using RCS via Google Messages rather than it requiring anything sketchy. I
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by grapheneos 6d ago
They want to sell more devices by improving security and having official support for GrapheneOS. The main work that's being done is official GrapheneOS support. They're also going to integrate improvements from it into their own O
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by grapheneos 7d ago
Motorola Mobility (Lenovo) isn't providing us with funding. They're improving the updates and security features for their devices, providing what we need to support them with proper updates and helping with the GrapheneOS port.

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