I mean, I understand the skepticism. I get the concerns and complaints you’re having.
Personally, for me, I’ve done the research on how TPM chips work, and the encryption behind it, and generally find it to be very, very secure, and I’m perfectly comfortable using the technology. As far as needing it for graphene, I mean, yeah. If it’s used for security hardening, then yeah, they’re going to need it. Graphene developers are even highly critical of Debian security practices, and Linux security practices, and standard hardening. They’re like the experts at this. I’m going to very heavily trust what they have to say. I mean, they’re so overly critical. I mean, it’s actually kind of a point of contention in the open source community with how aggressive and obtuse the graphene developers can be over perceived security flaws.
Graphene phones typically don’t “phone” home either. All that code was ripped out. Apps can still though.
Even if you get in trouble of legally, I still like that feature of graphene. Also, the little trouble you get for wiping your phone will probably be worth depending on what your activities are Considering this administration is giving people 30 years for doing things like moving magazines.
Didn’t know TPM was for DRM originally. Tech was a little before my time and had already rebranded.
Tbh the Graphene devs sound sort of like the OpenBSD devs. We’ve seen this before. It will be interesting to see what happens to the guy who wiped his phone at a border stop. He should have wiped it before getting on the plane, especially if he has a remote backup. With a Moto G phone he could of course put all the sensitive files on an SD card and then taken the card out of the phone.
I also wonder if there are any obstacles to forking Graphene to remove the TPM dependency. That would hopefully allow installing it on any phone for which there is current Lineage support.
I want to give up on smartphones altogether, and just bring a Raspberry Pi, maybe even just the board, scrounging a monitor and keyboard at the destination. One thing I like about the Pi is that it has no built in storage, just a card slot. So you know that if you remove the card, you haven’t still somehow left sensitive data in the built in storage. With a phone, you can’t be really sure.
I mean, I understand the skepticism. I get the concerns and complaints you’re having.
Personally, for me, I’ve done the research on how TPM chips work, and the encryption behind it, and generally find it to be very, very secure, and I’m perfectly comfortable using the technology. As far as needing it for graphene, I mean, yeah. If it’s used for security hardening, then yeah, they’re going to need it. Graphene developers are even highly critical of Debian security practices, and Linux security practices, and standard hardening. They’re like the experts at this. I’m going to very heavily trust what they have to say. I mean, they’re so overly critical. I mean, it’s actually kind of a point of contention in the open source community with how aggressive and obtuse the graphene developers can be over perceived security flaws.
Graphene phones typically don’t “phone” home either. All that code was ripped out. Apps can still though.
Even if you get in trouble of legally, I still like that feature of graphene. Also, the little trouble you get for wiping your phone will probably be worth depending on what your activities are Considering this administration is giving people 30 years for doing things like moving magazines.
Didn’t know TPM was for DRM originally. Tech was a little before my time and had already rebranded.
Tbh the Graphene devs sound sort of like the OpenBSD devs. We’ve seen this before. It will be interesting to see what happens to the guy who wiped his phone at a border stop. He should have wiped it before getting on the plane, especially if he has a remote backup. With a Moto G phone he could of course put all the sensitive files on an SD card and then taken the card out of the phone.
I also wonder if there are any obstacles to forking Graphene to remove the TPM dependency. That would hopefully allow installing it on any phone for which there is current Lineage support.
I want to give up on smartphones altogether, and just bring a Raspberry Pi, maybe even just the board, scrounging a monitor and keyboard at the destination. One thing I like about the Pi is that it has no built in storage, just a card slot. So you know that if you remove the card, you haven’t still somehow left sensitive data in the built in storage. With a phone, you can’t be really sure.