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authorDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2021-03-23 09:36:36 -0400
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<h1><a href="#features">Features overview</a></h1>
- <p>This is an overview of the current set of features differentiating GrapheneOS from
- the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). This page does not currently cover any of our
- historical features that are either not yet reimplemented or which became obsolete due
- to improvements in AOSP. Each major release of AOSP brings substantial privacy and
- security improvements, some of which have been based on our research and development
- work.</p>
+ <p>GrapheneOS is a private and secure mobile operating system with great functionality
+ and usability. It starts from the strong baseline of the Android Open Source Project
+ and takes great care to avoid increasing attack surface or hurting the strong security
+ model. GrapheneOS makes substantial improvements to both privacy and security through
+ many carefully designed features built to function against real adversaries.</p>
- <p>GrapheneOS is based on the Android 11 release of the Android Open Source Project
- which provides a strong baseline for privacy and security. GrapheneOS takes great care
- to preserve the baseline privacy and security, including taking full advantage of all
- of the standard hardware features. The privacy and security features inherited from
- AOSP and the hardware are not covered here. Documentation on that will be gradually
- added elsewhere on our site.</p>
+ <p>GrapheneOS is focused on substance rather than branding and marketing. It doesn't
+ take the typical approach of piling on a bunch of insecure features depending on the
+ adversaries not knowing about them and regressing actual privacy/security. It's a very
+ technical project building privacy and security into the OS rather than including
+ assorted unhelpful frills or bundling subjective third party apps choices.</p>
+
+ <p>The project cares a lot about usability and app compatibility so those are taken
+ into account for all of our features. GrapheneOS is also hard at work on filling in
+ gaps from not bundling Google apps and services into the OS. We aren't against users
+ using Google services but it doesn't belong integrated into the OS in an invasive way.
+ GrapheneOS won't take the shortcut of simply bundling a very incomplete and poorly
+ secured third party reimplementation of Google services into the OS. That wouldn't
+ ever be something users could rely upon. It will also always be chasing a moving
+ target while offering poorer security than the real thing if the focus is on simply
+ getting things working without great care for doing it robustly and securely.</p>
+
+ <p>This page provides an overview of currently implemented features differentiating
+ GrapheneOS from the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). It doesn't document our many
+ historical features that are not no longer included for one reason or another. Many of
+ our features were implemented in AOSP, Linux, LLVM and other projects GrapheneOS is
+ based on so those aren't listed here despite us often having involvement in making the
+ implementations for those projects.</p>
<nav id="table-of-contents">
<h2><a href="#table-of-contents">Table of contents</a></h2>