GrapheneOS
-No Google apps or services
+GrapheneOS is a privacy and security focused mobile OS with Android app + compatibility developed as a non-profit open source project. + It's focused on the research and development of privacy and security technology + including substantial improvements to sandboxing, exploit mitigations and the + permission model.
-GrapheneOS will never include either Google Play services or another - implementation of Google services like microG. It's possible to install Play - services as a set of fully sandboxed apps without special privileges via our - sandboxed Play services compatibility - layer. See the FAQ section for more details - on our plans for filling in the gaps from not shipping Play services and Google - apps.
-GrapheneOS improves the privacy and security of the OS from the bottom up. It + deploys technologies to mitigate whole classes of vulnerabilities and make exploiting + the most common sources of vulnerabilities substantially more difficult. It improves + the security of both the OS and the apps running on it. The app sandbox and other + security boundaries are fortified. GrapheneOS tries to avoid impacting the user + experience with the privacy and security features. Ideally, the features can be + designed so that they're always enabled with no impact on the user experience and no + additional complexity like configuration options. It's not always feasible, and + GrapheneOS does add various toggles for features like the Network permission, Sensors + permission, restrictions when the device is locked (USB peripherals, camera, quick + tiles), etc. along with more complex user-facing privacy and security features with + their own UX.
-History
+The features page provides an overview of the substantial + privacy and security improvements added by GrapheneOS to the Android Open Source + Project.
-GrapheneOS was founded as an open source project in late 2014. It was formerly - known as CopperheadOS. For more details, see the history - page.
-Official releases are available on the releases page and + installation instructions are on the install page.
-Upstream contributions
+GrapheneOS also develops various apps and services with a focus on privacy and + security. Vanadium is a hardened variant of the Chromium browser and WebView + specifically built for GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS also includes our minimal + security-focused PDF Viewer, our hardware-based Auditor app / attestation service + providing local and remote verification of devices, and the externally developed + Seedvault encrypted backup which was initially developed for inclusion in + GrapheneOS.
-See the FAQ section on our upstream work improving - privacy and security for billions of users by getting a subset of our changes into - core infrastructure projects.
-No Google apps or services
-Roadmap
+GrapheneOS will never include either Google Play services or another + implementation of Google services like microG. It's possible to install Play + services as a set of fully sandboxed apps without special privileges via our + sandboxed Play services compatibility + layer. See the FAQ section for more details + on our plans for filling in the gaps from not shipping Play services and Google + apps.
+History
-Device support
+GrapheneOS was founded as an open source project in late 2014. It was formerly + known as CopperheadOS. For more details, see the history + page.
+Upstream contributions
+ +See the FAQ section on our upstream work improving + privacy and security for billions of users by getting a subset of our changes into + core infrastructure projects.
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