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  • xep@discuss.online
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    I’ve done something similar trying to get root on Graphene OS, since I’m more far more concerned about corporations than nation-state actors. It can be done, but isn’t worth the trouble, especially since it doesn’t completely work and GOS updates may break it. Long story short, GOS wasn’t for me.

    For anyone else who might be interested in trying to root GOS, take a look here: https://github.com/schnatterer/rooted-graphene I believe this to be likely the most comprehensive source for getting started.

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      Doesn’t rooting GOS feel counter intuitive? If you’re looking for security rooting GOS circumvents its security policy. May as well download some other OS at that point?

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        Yes, that’s right, so I did. I wanted to have a go to see what it was about, though, and I found that root was more important for me than the security that GOS purports to offer.

        And when Google itself is one of your threat actors, literally the world’s worst solution that provides the barest modicum of protection against Google is by definition more secure.

        This was what I learned.