Still the S-tier choice for privacy and security.Requires an internet connection that pings Google servers to send cryptographic unlock certificate to new Pixels.>If you boot a brand-new Pixel completely offline without Wi-Fi or a SIM card, the OEM Unlocking option in the Developer Options menu will be permanently grayed out. It explicitly states that you must connect to the internet to activate it.Be sure to have your router connected to a VPN or TOR before turning on WiFi and connecting your NEW (newly purchased) (hopefully you paid cash) Pixel to Google servers to be granted the OEM Unlock option in Developer Settings. Proceed with attaining privacy and security by flashing GrapheneOS.If you purchased the device second hand, you're in the clear, although, the purchase transaction is logged, if you weren't able to purchase using cash. Upcoming GrapheneOS-certified Motorola phones will not use eFuses to permanently lock out or brick custom software.
it is so weird that Motorola was the company that started the entire privacy mess with the Droid X and now GrapheneOS is partnering with them. also, they are tied to the CIA and Mossad...wtf
Android is irrelevant
>>109010627>Android is irrelevant
Unlock the phone in the store on their wifi and pay with cash. If you unlock it at home it already logged your location, every nearby WiFi ssid and Bluetooth device. Don't bring a device near your home without it already being flashed with a privacy respecting operating system.
Works me machine
>>109010654this is good advice, also get a USB-C to Ethernet and connect directly to the router that's running the VPN or TOR
>>109010624At the very least, it's still a functioning boycott of tech giants and deprives them of money.
Google already has a picture of the buyer from the moment the phone is turned on and the OS is booted. A code is execute for the cameras to take a photo of the buyer and keyloggers track and record all activity in the device. When WiFi is activated all of that is uploaded to the server when OEM Unlock is toggled.
>>109010627
>>109010810>why do you all feel the new for full privacy?
>why do you all feel the need to have privacy. you guys must be pedoskek it's ironic that you mentioned a glownigger as a pedo. Many such cases.
>>109010810gimme your card information thenand let me copy a key to your house
>>109010810Shalon Rabi!
>>109010810You give them an inch and they'll take a mile. Actual pedos documented by the FBI aren't being held accountable for anything while governments crack down on your privacy for pizza purposes of course and nothing else.
Why do I constantly see GOS counter signalling each time I check this board?
>>109011514Board is full of Jews, indians, and techlet consoomers.That's why
>>109010854There are some true believers in Statism, they're not all paid
I bought my Pixel directly from Google using my credit card. I turned it on at home and installed Graphene. It's fine. You guys love to larp.
>>109011700Your purchase, your address your WiFi and your device ID is logged with Google.
>>109011700I am a content creator so google already knows who I am. Don't really care that google knows I run GOS on a pixel... Because other than I do on YouTube, they can't see much else.
>>109011741Is this you?
>>109011755Literally me!
>>109010710>>109010654>>109010600>tell me you're a pedophile without telling me you're a pedophile
>>109011842>Apple user calling others pedophile Pot meet kettle
>>109010837>>109010854Normal people go to normal lengths to have "privacy" on their devices. You know, blocking ads and location tracking and that sort of thing. But when you get to the point of buying a specific phone with cash and using public wifi to flash it with a special OS then there are really only two options. One, you're autistic, or two, you're planning to use it to commit crimes.
>>109011858Hello Apple marketing shill! I've always wondered... Do you get paid per post?
>>109011842>you want privacy? You must be a pedophile
>>109011858>doesn't want a literal spyware device in their home or associated with them>must be a criminalYou are delusional.
>>109011917Pretending you don't understand the argument is one of the most cucked forms of debate, son. You're just embarrassing yourself.What do you people even use your phone for once you've put on your disguise and bought it with cash and flashed the OS using public wifi? Anyone who wants to identify you will be able to instantly do so as soon as you start calling or texting your friends and family.
>>109011928>spywareYeah that sounds super scary I guess until you grow up and realize that the literal only use case for "spyware" is tailored advertising. You are one of literally billions of cellphone users and nobody gives a single fuck about what you're doing unless you're committing crimes.Who exactly do you think is spying on you, and for what purpose?
>>109011949
>>109011974That's some very nice AI slop but it doesn't really make sense when you're here shilling for Android and India is by far the largest Android market.
>>109011949Good evening Rabi!
>>109011997Loses a bit of the edge when I know that you're so terrified of having anyone know that you're making posts like this that you go through this james bond shit to get an "untrackable" phone.
>>109012028Why is this jew so concerned and terrified of this thread?
>>109012028>Moron uses apple and send apple every single detail of her life>Tries to convince chads to drop privacy and forget about security >She gets mad when called out and made fun of Go play with your iToys, lil sis, the adults are talking
>>109012037Literally just asked you a simple question and you started sperging out instead of giving a simple response. At least make up your mind whether I'm an indian or a jew.>>109012038>mfw this obvious ESL grammarOh I see now, this is one of those jeet larp threads and that's why none of you can give a straight answer about why this is so important to you. Never mind, carry on.
>>109012073You're trying to hard, lil sis.
>>109012073I'll take the bait. I want privacy and security, not because I have something to hide, but, I just don't like anybody in my business. Especially without my consent. I don't like being spied on and I hate being controlled in any form or fashion.
>>109012125Lil sis is an apple shill. She understands technology about as well as a 90 year old boomer. She's a consoomer NPC and knows little to nothing that she isn't fed by Facebook
>>109011949>>109011962the autistic privacy focused "muh opsec" autists are usually just retarded or, rarely, actual criminals, but the privacy bleating helps keep the overton window shifted just a little bit more towards the kind of privacy actual people care about. which is to say let them get worked up and foam at the mouth at all these infringements of privacy and security (overblown or imaginary) because they're doing the rest of us a service at the low cost of rolling our eyes at themin a way it's like people that don't block ads or actually pay for games, sometimes it's better to just let the useful idiots be
>>109012146You're still trying way too hard, lil sis.
>>109010624And aren't they chink-owned now? there's gotta be CCP backdoor incoming
>>109011755Manliest rust developer
>>109012136>your only option is a binary choice between an iphone or a black market untraceable android phoneno understanding of nuance? yep, it's autism time!
>>109010600glowie
>>109010810anyone who asks this question should be immediately shot by the revolutionary committee
I did the whole larp with VPN on router, pay in cash etc. But then after a few months the screen broke (known manufacturing problem, not my fault). To be able to speak to Google I had to create a Google account, give them my phone number and IMEI. When the phone returned they had erased GrapheneOS and put on the stock ROM.
>>109013261>Things That Never Happened vol 3
>>109013261typical State-Sponsored "Criminalization" Propaganda campaign against GOS. Because standard forensic tools are rendered entirely useless against a Pixel device running GrapheneOS, Western intelligence and judicial police have shifted to running psychological media campaigns to demonize the project, online and offline. your post glows>In November 2025, a confidential judicial police intelligence memo was leaked to major European news outlets. The resulting state-backed media push explicitly branded GrapheneOS as the "secret weapon of drug traffickers," falsely claiming the open-source privacy system was a darknet application designed exclusively for criminals. >The Intent: This narrative is designed by judicial authorities to set a precedent for future prosecution of open-source publishers, framing the desire for basic digital privacy as a suspicious act of concealment.
>>109011885you should kys
>>109012189https://9to5google.com/2026/05/25/motorola-amazon-app-hijacking-behavior/
>>109010600what happened with custom roms, why is there 0 talk abput them and it's only graphene now?
>>109011700Good job you defeated the entire point of getting it for privacy reasons
>>109010810>>109011700>>109011858>>109011949>>109012146Three letter agencies glow so bright
>>109013291All manufacturers were forced by telecom carriers to implement eFuses in their devices. Google sheeted around this and instead of cell carrier only devices, only, they sold directly to retailers like Amazon, Best Buy and spy on, implementing their own "digital eFuse", mentioned in OP
>>109013316skirted*
>>109013316woah nigga I have no idea what any of that mean, can ypu translate to simple terms?
>>109013291>>109013342basically Google was the only phone manufacturer that managed not to be forced to have physical eFuses built onto the silicon and in not being like Samsung, LG, and Motorola (the main perpetrators), it was okay got them to release the blobs to developers and CFW "hackers".
Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile lobbied to make it LAW that cellphone manufacturers like Samsung, LG and Google and whoever else, must build their phones with these faggot ass eFuses into the mobile CPUs, so as to prevent users from bypassing the feature blocks they would usually have to pay for, such as tethering and unlocking of basebands and circumventing Carrier spyware embedded in carrier installed bloatware apps, by installing CFW. Google found and used a loophole to not have to adhere to the bullshit law and started selling their pixels directly to retailers their UNLOCKED devices. All other manufacturers from that day became incapable of installing CFWs.
>>109013342>>109013291Specifically, when Motorola dropped the Droid X, it was the first phone to use an eFuse that when an attempt to install a CFW was made, it fried the entire CPU and the phone would bed bricked. Cellphone service providers saw this and loved it! Because they didn't lie and still don't like their customers circumventing their locks and their spying on the devices, so, they, like a bunch of faggot ass kikes, lobbied to have ALL carrier grade devices — be they grin Samsung, Google, LG, Huawei etc.— must have that gay fuse. This is why and when Samsung came up with that for mm faggot ass Knox bullshit, but instead of frying the CPU, it'll trigger Knox and secure folder.Google became the only device that made devices that made it possible to install CFW. In comes GrapheneOS and the rest is history.
During the events of January 6th, 2021, and the massive federal investigation that followed, GrapheneOS was highly effective at blocking the physical data-extraction dragnets used by the FBI, but it could not protect users from network-level tracking like cell tower logging and geofence warrants.>When evaluating how the operating system performed against the state’s multi-layered digital dragnet, the results are divided between physical device security and network connectivity. >Physical Device Extraction: 100% Effective. Following the events at the Capitol, federal law enforcement seized thousands of smartphones and routed them through advanced digital forensic extraction platforms, primarily Cellebrite Premium and Magnet AXIOM.>The Reality: Leaked internal documentation and case files from Cellebrite confirm that locked Pixel devices running GrapheneOS were completely inaccessible to forensic investigators.>Why it Worked: GrapheneOS utilizes aggressive USB port disabling, which physically shuts down data transmission through the USB port the moment the screen locks. This blocked the automated software exploits Cellebrite uses to bypass lock screens. Furthermore, GrapheneOS heavily hardens the phone's Titan M secure element chip, progressively doubling the time delay between incorrect passcode attempts. This made brute-forcing passcodes mathematically impossible.
>>109013342>>109013291Instead, Google devised its own kind of eFuse—a "digital eFuse—where the II EM unlock toggle and feature in Developer Options would be greyed out or inaccessible until you connect the device to the internet and the device makes a ping to Google's servers, thereby recording and logging the UUID, IMEI and IMDI, as well as, other pertinent user information.
Google Account Logging was prevented by GrapheneOS on Jan 6th. A massive portion of the FBI’s suspect list was compiled by demanding that Google hand over data on every account that synced with the Google Play Store or location services within the Capitol perimeter.>The Reality: Because GrapheneOS strips away all default Google tracking, telemetry, and pre-installed Google accounts, users running GrapheneOS did not generate this digital footprint.>Why it Worked: On standard Android devices, Google Play Services constantly pings corporate servers with location data in the background. GrapheneOS isolates and sandboxes these services into a standard, restricted user space with zero special permissions, entirely preventing background location tracking and automated "home phoning". But, with Geofence Dragnet, shut got a bit sketchy, because it was partially vulnerable. >The FBI successfully executed an unprecedented "Geofence Dragnet," forcing telecom providers to hand over the records of every mobile device that connected to local cell towers surrounding the Capitol building.>The Reality: GrapheneOS cannot prevent network-level tracing if the device has an active SIM card and is connected to a cellular network.>Why it Weakened: To receive phone calls or text messages, any smartphone—regardless of its operating system—must constantly broadcast its unique IMEI number and SIM identifiers to local cellular towers. If a GrapheneOS device was powered on with an active cellular connection inside the Capitol, the network carrier logged its presence, allowing investigators to identify the owner through billing records. GrapheneOS only completely neutralizes this if the device is placed in Airplane Mode or left without a SIM card
>>109013428OEM* Unlock toggleFor those brave enough to attend world cup matches in Canada, Mexico and US, just know what you're up against and do not turn on cellphone service, because they're going hard on Executive Order 12333. There's going to be a strict mission-creep agenda underway where high-tech surveillance systems introduced for a temporary crisis or major sporting event become a permanent part of everyday municipal policing and they're targeting cellphones, facial recognition and the whole 9yds. Testing their Amero currency fed coin exchange too using phones. They claim they in order to manage massive crowds and detect potential threats, security networks utilize localized cellular data monitoring. This includes tracking the density of mobile device signals to map crowd bottlenecks and using specialized cell-site simulators to monitor localized communications around high-security perimeters. Essentially, they will be using, testing and creating new attack vectors for cellphones.
>>109013342>>109013291Oh I forgot, so there was major backlash against Motorola and they came up with their bullshit explanation that or m the eFuse was essential to prevent boomers from being scammed by jeet CFW hackers; that didn't blow over to well and saw Samsung enter the forum with their Knox and Secure Folder bullshit and that turned into no more eFuse, just, manufacturers are not allowed to release their blobs to the public, only cellphone service providers. Carrier specific phone variants including carrier specific UNLOCKED phones (except Google) were, as a result, locked down and cellphone service providers as well as the manufacturers were bound by law to not release or share the kernel and firmware blobs. Rooting, installing CFW and bounties became a thing the past.
>>109010627>Most used OS on the planet >Irrelevant
>>109013620He meant to say irrelevant outside of India
Reminder that anyone even remotely opposed to the idea of privacy, security and stability is a fucking jew and is to be instantly disregarded. Don't even entertain them in any way, shape or form.
