• Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    21 hours ago

    There’s a reason it only supports Pixel phones: none of the other manufacturers produce phones that are suitable for it. All the other ones either don’t let you unlock the bootloader, won’t let you relock it with your own keys, or disables other security featurea. Meaning anyone can just flash whatever code they want to the phone and completely nullify the security model.

    For a bit, OnePlus did support this but they quietly removed that feature with the Android 12 bootloader update, and otherwise cut you off from the TEE anyway so the OS can’t even verify the boot chain.

    The GrapheneOS team said they would happily support other devices if any met their criterias for support. None do. Pixels are the only phone where you can properly flash a custom OS on, and relock the bootloader and disable OEM unlocking like it’s the official OS with all the security features functional.