I was seriously considering getting an over priced pixel phone just so I could get graphene os, but then I discovered, that rooting it is impossible. Pity
Rooting is not possible because of the security risks posed by doing so. You could technically build your own GOS with root enabled, but that’s not recommended
Can you elaborate on how it’s security through obscurity? I’m just saying what the devs have said. It does make sense though that if you provide root access that it could be easier for malicious devices to gain root access and therefore take more harmful actions
Not sure what you mean by “if I don’t have a device”? Also I meant malicious apps moreso than malicious devices. If you have root access then if a malicious app gets control there’s basically no restrictions on what it can do given root access.
Also as far as plain hacking the phone, not through a bad app but through an external device. Pegasus (although probably an unlikely scenario for the average person) can basically hack any smartphone, with the exception of grapheneOS (there were some leaked slides from a meeting a while back that essentially confirmed this).
You say “make things stronger”, well sandboxing and improved permissions access do make for stronger, more contained systems, and grapheneOS improves on both of those. Root access basically provides a sledgehammer to all of that
I was seriously considering getting an over priced pixel phone just so I could get graphene os, but then I discovered, that rooting it is impossible. Pity
Rooting is not possible because of the security risks posed by doing so. You could technically build your own GOS with root enabled, but that’s not recommended
This attitude is, to me, very security through obscurity. I did consider your idea, but on the whole can’t be bothered 🤷
Can you elaborate on how it’s security through obscurity? I’m just saying what the devs have said. It does make sense though that if you provide root access that it could be easier for malicious devices to gain root access and therefore take more harmful actions
Utter hogwash. If I don’t have a device, a hacker can’t gain access to it. That’s security through obscurity. Make things stronger, not evasive
Not sure what you mean by “if I don’t have a device”? Also I meant malicious apps moreso than malicious devices. If you have root access then if a malicious app gets control there’s basically no restrictions on what it can do given root access.
Also as far as plain hacking the phone, not through a bad app but through an external device. Pegasus (although probably an unlikely scenario for the average person) can basically hack any smartphone, with the exception of grapheneOS (there were some leaked slides from a meeting a while back that essentially confirmed this).
You say “make things stronger”, well sandboxing and improved permissions access do make for stronger, more contained systems, and grapheneOS improves on both of those. Root access basically provides a sledgehammer to all of that