Post #1461143

2025-11-25 04:51 UTC

@tichodrome_colvert @corsac @watchfulcitizen No other devices provide the required hardware-based security features and updates to provide a reasonable level of security. It would not be possible to successfully defend against commercial exploit tools to nearly the extent that we do on any other existing devices. They can identify another OS is running on any device quite easily unless it's the official stock OS and therefore there isn't a verified boot notice.

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@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social 2025-11-25 04:52

@tichodrome_colvert @corsac @watchfulcitizen It's also important to note that French law enforcement is clearly conflating many things which are not GrapheneOS with GrapheneOS. They're calling any closed source product using portions of our code GrapheneOS if it's marketed as being GrapheneOS. They're attributing what various apps do to GrapheneOS itself including device admin apps for providing wipe triggers which are in no way specific to GrapheneOS. Their claims are highly inaccurate.

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@tichodrome_colvert@piaille.fr 2025-11-25 05:09

@GrapheneOS @corsac @watchfulcitizen What do you mean by verified boot device? For reference, when I boot my Pixel 7 device on which I installed GrapheneOS, the first thing that appears is a message about an alternative OS to the stock OS being installed, before the Google then GrapheneOS logos. Maybe I don't understand it correctly, but from your message it sounds like the first message about a non-stock OS being used shouldn't appear. [Edit: after doing some research the "Your device ils loading a different operating system" message seems normal.]

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