From what I've seen in the past, the primary chokepoint for GrapheneOS has not been funds, but developers. Relevant here because it seems they often don't have enough devs to maintain current releases, much less think about new ones.
If they refused to merge a PR adding support for a new device without a good reason, that'd be one thing, but I don't think that has happened. (Disclaimer: I haven't followed development super closely, so some of this could be inaccurate or out-of-date.)
I think many people also overestimate the competence of "bad guys" like Google (or the US federal government); sure they have a lot of power and can do many bad things, but they are not omnipotent. Obviously I can't *prove* that there isn't some kind of hardware "watcher" that runs even alongside GrapheneOS, but why would Google spend money and dev time on this when they already have control of the entire OS 99% of the time?
I'm much more concerned about the millions of normies using stock Android, which *definitely* sends tons of data to Google, or iOS, which probably isn't much better. Sure I'd love to have an entirely open, auditable hardware platform, but in the meantime I think anyone who switches from Android/iOS to Graphene is taking a step in the right direction.
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2024-05-11 07:59:20
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