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We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support. https://motorolanews.com/...

2026-03-02 View on X

9to5Google

Lenovo's Motorola partners with the GrapheneOS Foundation to preinstall the privacy-focused, “de-Googled” version of Android on upcoming Motorola smartphones

Following rumors swirling for quite some time, Motorola has announced a partnership with GrapheneOS that will see the privacy-focused …

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@ssamat Google's anti-competitive actions with the Play Store are the tip of the iceberg for the overall antitrust violations by Android. Google has been heavily doubling down on anti-competitive behavior with the Play Integrity API and changes to AOSP. You'll be losing a lot more cases.

2025-11-05 View on X

Reuters

Google and Epic Games settle Epic's 2020 antitrust lawsuit, with Android and Google Play changes to expand competition and choice, pending a US judge's approval

Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday it has reached a comprehensive U.S. court settlement with “Fortnite” …

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GrapheneOS blocks reaching any of these vulnerabilities for locked devices through our USB-C port and pogo pins control feature disabling new connections at a hardware level and a software level after locking along with disabling USB data in hardware too: https://grapheneos.org/...

2025-03-01 View on X

TechCrunch

Amnesty International says Google has fixed three zero-day vulnerabilities in Android, developed by Cellebrite and used by Serbia to unlock phones

Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools.

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https://securitylab.amnesty.org/ ... Amnesty International's Security Lab has a post about 3 vulnerabilities exploited by Cellebrite to extract data from locked Android devices. GrapheneOS blocked exploiting these vulnerabilities in multiple different ways. We also patched them much earlier.

2025-03-01 View on X

TechCrunch

Amnesty International says Google has fixed three zero-day vulnerabilities in Android, developed by Cellebrite and used by Serbia to unlock phones

Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools.

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Each of these is an upstream Linux kernel vulnerability: * CVE-2024-53104: heap overflow in a Linux kernel USB webcam driver * CVE-2024-53197: heap overflow in a Linux kernel USB sound card driver * CVE-2024-50302: uninitialized heap memory in a Linux kernel USB touchpad driver

2025-03-01 View on X

TechCrunch

Amnesty International says Google has fixed three zero-day vulnerabilities in Android, developed by Cellebrite and used by Serbia to unlock phones

Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools.

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@josephfcox April 2024 is when Google shipped the firmware reset attack mitigation feature we proposed to fix a vulnerability we reported which was being exploited in the wild by MSAB for their XRY tool: https://x.com/... It looks a lot like Graykey used the same vulnerability.

2024-11-20 View on X

404 Media

Leaked documents: Graykey, a phone unlocking tool used by police, can access “partial” data from the iPhone 12 up to the iPhone 16 running iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1

The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world …

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iOS 18.1 added an implementation of the auto-reboot timer for locked devices we've been using in GrapheneOS since June 2021: https://chaos.social/... This was one of our early generation protections against forensic data extraction. We added a lot more protections this year.

2024-11-10 View on X

404 Media

Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement

Apple quietly introduced code into iOS 18.1 which reboots the device if it has not been unlocked for a period of time …

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iOS 18.1 was released on October 28, 2024. This has nothing to do with recent news coverage where cops are blaming imaginary features for devices not staying in After First Unlock state. Devices likely crashed due to one of many bugs which exist, including already patched ones.

2024-11-10 View on X

404 Media

Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement

Apple quietly introduced code into iOS 18.1 which reboots the device if it has not been unlocked for a period of time …

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iOS 18.1 added an implementation of the auto-reboot timer for locked devices we've been using in GrapheneOS since June 2021: https://chaos.social/... This was one of our early generation protections against forensic data extraction. We added a lot more protections this year.

2024-11-09 View on X

404 Media

Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement

Apple quietly introduced code into iOS 18.1 which reboots the device if it has not been unlocked for a period of time …

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iOS 18.1 was released on October 28, 2024. This has nothing to do with recent news coverage where cops are blaming imaginary features for devices not staying in After First Unlock state. Devices likely crashed due to one of many bugs which exist, including already patched ones.

2024-11-09 View on X

404 Media

Experts say a new feature in iOS 18.1 causes iPhone to reboot after few days of inactivity, which improves security and has caused concern among law enforcement

Apple quietly introduced code into iOS 18.1 which reboots the device if it has not been unlocked for a period of time …

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Our initial port of device-independent GrapheneOS code to Android 15 is done and we're testing it in the emulator. We still need to port the kernels, device-specific repositories, adevtool and generate the new vendor state. Can already be built for emulator from our 15 branch.

2024-09-05 View on X

TechCrunch

Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks

Today, following months of developer previews and public betas … Ryan Daws / Developer Tech News : Android 15: Developer productivity and UX take centre stage Rubens Eishima / next...

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Telegram has full access to all of the content of group chats and regular one-to-one chats due to lack of end-to-end encryption. Their opt-in secret chats use homegrown end-to-end encryption with weaknesses. Deleting the content from the app likely won't remove all copies of it.

2024-08-26 View on X

Politico

French President Emmanuel Macron says the government was not involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov and “this is in no way a political decision”

French president condemns “false information” as Pavel Durov's detention in Paris triggers global outcry.

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Telegram has full access to all of the content of group chats and regular one-to-one chats due to lack of end-to-end encryption. Their opt-in secret chats use homegrown end-to-end encryption with weaknesses. Deleting the content from the app likely won't remove all copies of it.

2024-08-26 View on X

Reuters

Sources: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France as part of a probe into Telegram allegedly allowing a range of crimes due to a lack of moderation

Related by education: Saint Petersburg State University BBC : Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested at French airport Jones Hayden / Politico : Telegram CEO reportedly arrested at Fren...

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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. https://www.wired.com/...

2024-08-16 View on X

Washington Post

Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel devices “out of an abundance of precaution”, after iVerify said hackers could use the dormant app to spy

'Dangerous' New Spyware Warning Issued Vinayak Guha / Android Authority : Flaw in Verizon Pixel's firmware poses serious security threat (Update: Google statement) Threads: Lauren ...

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This is one of multiple carrier apps in the stock Pixel OS which we don't include in GrapheneOS. We were aware of it already since we had to go through them and figure out why they exist. We could embrace this fearmongering and leverage it for marketing, but we aren't dishonest.

2024-08-16 View on X

Washington Post

Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel devices “out of an abundance of precaution”, after iVerify said hackers could use the dormant app to spy

'Dangerous' New Spyware Warning Issued Vinayak Guha / Android Authority : Flaw in Verizon Pixel's firmware poses serious security threat (Update: Google statement) Threads: Lauren ...

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GrapheneOS has gone through each of the carrier apps included on Pixel generation to determine their purpose and consequences of including or excluding them. Here it is being excluded from the new adevtool project for ProtonAOSP and GrapheneOS in 2021: https://github.com/...

2024-08-16 View on X

Washington Post

Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel devices “out of an abundance of precaution”, after iVerify said hackers could use the dormant app to spy

'Dangerous' New Spyware Warning Issued Vinayak Guha / Android Authority : Flaw in Verizon Pixel's firmware poses serious security threat (Update: Google statement) Threads: Lauren ...

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iVerify are scammers and anyone paying them money should rapidly stop doing it and remove their malware from their devices. The real security risk is giving remote code execution on your devices to one of these sketchy EDR companies lying about their capabilities and discoveries.

2024-08-16 View on X

Washington Post

Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel devices “out of an abundance of precaution”, after iVerify said hackers could use the dormant app to spy

'Dangerous' New Spyware Warning Issued Vinayak Guha / Android Authority : Flaw in Verizon Pixel's firmware poses serious security threat (Update: Google statement) Threads: Lauren ...

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