Comment by grommz
7 hours ago
It's all about that sweet backdoor. With Google and Samsung the NSA can just waltz in and out of your phone no matter which OS is running. But if some Chinese OEM decides that Unisoc chip & baseband would be the best choice for your GrapheneOS device the NSA will be quite unhappy.
It's the other way round.
If the device is sufficiently secure, it will be considered for the official support from GrapheneOS.
Of course, GOS can be forked by anyone, including Chinese OEM with insecure hardware.
I'm honestly a little surprised we haven't seen a Chinese OEM use grapheneOS or their own fork of it.
Graphene is a privacy focussed rom. In China there is not such a concept as privacy. In fact, it might be illegal to be distributing this, even for export.
Clothes, handbags, etc. brands regularly complain that Chinese factories sell apparent clones at lower prices.
Can design forgeries be prevented by selecting as designs phrases and fragments of text that are politically provocative in China? To the extent that they continue to make faithful copies to sell in the West, they are exposing labor force to provocative say anti-party content. Or they forego the imitation business?
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Why are you surprised? Since when does China care about privacy?
They already have HarmonyOS, which is much better than Android
How so ?