https://x.com/cryps1s/status/1824077327577591827 This is a fake story. Turns out that getting security information from the CISO of a mass surveillance company trying to build a dystopian police state providing police with "predictive policing" software largely based on racial stereotypes is a bad move.

Wired was manipulated into spreading misinformation to market Palantir and iVerify by misrepresenting a vulnerability in a disabled demo app as being a serious problem which could be exploited in the real world. They should retract the article but won't.

WIRED

Nearly All Google Pixel Phones Exposed by Unpatched Flaw in Hidden Android App

A fix is coming, but data analytics giant Palantir says it’s ditching Android devices altogether because Google’s response to the vulnerability...

Ars Technica

Google loses DOJ’s big monopoly trial over search business

Google's exclusive deals maintained monopolies in two markets, judge ruled.

Action is still urgently needed to address the highly anti-competitive Google Mobiles Services licensing system and the Play Integrity API which are a major part of Google maintaining their monopolies over search and many parts of the mobile market.

GrapheneOS Info app is now available through our app repository and will be included in the next release of the OS. It supports viewing recent OS release notes, provides info on our chat rooms, forum and active social media accounts along with offering all the donations methods.

Leader of the Privacy Guides project is now pushing the narrative privacy/security are only for criminals:

Privacy Guides Community

Claims made by forensics companies, their capabilities, and how GrapheneOS fares

Edit: Daniel Micay reading my warning about the dangers of marketing to criminals and thinking that privacy and security is only for criminals says...

Everyone with integrity already left the Privacy Guides project a while ago due to their heavy involvement in harassing GrapheneOS project members.

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GrapheneOS version 2024052100 released: https://grapheneos.org/releases#2024052100 See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements...

The latest release of GrapheneOS adds the first piece of our ongoing work on duress/panic features. It makes standard factory resets including by device admin APIs wipe the device near instantly before it reboots to recovery to wipe and format it.

Our latest OS release that's currently in the Beta channel implements a new feature for blocking DNS leaks by third party VPN service app implementations which were discovered by our community:

GitHub

DNS queries leaks if always-on VPN with killswitch enabled malfunctions · Issue #3442 · GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker

I was testing out the VPN functionality while monitoring all network traffic on my Wifi hotspot, and while intentionally trying to sabotage the con...

The good news is this does successfully block these leaks.

We'll be blacklisting mailbox.org and websites using it for email hosting for registration on discuss.grapheneos.org and as an alert email for attestation.app. They're blocking emails from our mail server for a convoluted, nonsensical reason and won't stop.

We found another regression introduced by a recent f2fs change in the Linux 5.15 LTS branch so we'll have to make another release for Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro before it can reach Beta. Only 2 users doing Alpha channel testing ran into this and one has confirmed reverting it works.

Reset attack mitigation for firmware-based boot modes such as fastboot mode has been added as one of our requirements for GrapheneOS support:

Frequently Asked Questions | GrapheneOS

It shipped as part of this month's firmware updates for Pixels based on our proposal. Other OEMs should add it.

GrapheneOS version 2024030900 released:

Releases | GrapheneOS

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release. Forum discussion thread:

GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS version 2024030900 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

GrapheneOS version 2024030800 released:

Releases | GrapheneOS

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release. Forum discussion thread:

GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS version 2024030800 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

GrapheneOS Camera app version 66 released:

GitHub

Release 66 · GrapheneOS/Camera

Notable changes in version 66: work around an Android 13 OS bug not fixed until Android 14 which is causing crashes when resuming certain activiti...

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog. Forum discussion thread:

GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS Camera app version 66 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #camera #android

Our previous thread wasn't federating properly and most instances were only getting the first 2 of 14 posts. We had to post it again a few times trying to resolve the problem. The last configuration change and Mastodon server restart appears to have resolved it, if you can consider disabling an important anti-abuse feature resolving it. We'd appreciate if people who boosted the original thread or the 2nd/3rd attempts at redoing it would undo that and boost the current working thread instead.

The neat.computer and mstdn.party instances are being added to our federation block list. We've already added neat.chat to our federation block list on Matrix. These servers are run by an administrator (Jonah Aragon) who is targeting one of our team members with harassment and fabricated stories. Jonah is a power mod seeking control over as many communities as possible. They have a history of abusing their position of power. Several of our team members used to be involved in projects with them.

It's now possible to donate to the non-profit GrapheneOS Foundation via bank transfers in the EU/SEPA, UK, US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Hungary, Singapore and Turkey. International wire transfers from elsewhere are not currently a supported option.

Donate | GrapheneOS

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #donate

First experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 7a is available. Can be installed via our staging site web installer or downloaded from the releases page for CLI install.

Web installer | Install | GrapheneOS

Releases | GrapheneOS

We don't have a Pixel 7a yet so it's entirely untested. #grapheneos #privacy #security #experimental #pixel7a #7a

GmsCompatConfig (sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer configuration) version 52 released: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_GmsCompat/releases/tag/config-52. See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog. Forum discussion thread:

GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GmsCompatConfig version 52 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #gmscompat

We'll be heavily prioritizing adding support for the Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold. It has been years since we supported a tablet (Nexus 9) and there will likely be additional work to support the form factor properly. Pixel Fold is a new form factor and may be difficult. #grapheneos #privacy #security #pixel #pixel7a #pixeltablet #pixelfold