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<article id="default-connections">
<h3><a href="#default-connections">What kind of connections do the OS and bundled apps make by default?</a></h3>
- <p>GrapheneOS makes connections to the outside world to test connectivity, detect
- captive portals and download updates. No data varying per user / installation / device
- is sent in these connections. There aren't analytics / telemetry in GrapheneOS.</p>
-
- <p>On 6th and 7th generation Pixels, GrapheneOS only connects to GrapheneOS
- servers by default. On 4th and 5th generation Pixels, there's a single
- non-GrapheneOS connection to download static files from a Qualcomm service
- (PSDS, referred to as XTRA by Qualcomm) hosted on Amazon Web Services which
- we're in the process of phasing out. We've already made changes to resolve a
- serious privacy issue with this Qualcomm service.</p>
+ <p>GrapheneOS makes connections to the outside world to test connectivity,
+ detect captive portals and download updates. No data varying per user /
+ installation / device is sent in these connections. There aren't analytics /
+ telemetry in GrapheneOS. By default, remote connections are only made to
+ GrapheneOS services and the network provided DNS resolvers.</p>
<p>Make sure to read the <a href="#other-connections">other connections</a>
section below this one too which covers non-default connections triggered by
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<p>On 4th and 5th generation Pixels (which use a Qualcomm baseband
providing cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GNSS in separate sandboxes),
almanacs are downloaded from
- https://path1.xtracloud.net/xtra3grcej.bin
- https://path2.xtracloud.net/xtra3grcej.bin,
- https://path3.xtracloud.net/xtra3grcej.bin,
+ https://qualcomm.psds.grapheneos.org/xtra3Mgrbeji.bin which is a cache
+ of Qualcomm's data. Alternatively, the standard servers can be enabled
+ in the Settings app which will use
https://path1.xtracloud.net/xtra3Mgrbeji.bin,
https://path2.xtracloud.net/xtra3Mgrbeji.bin and
- https://path3.xtracloud.net/xtra3Mgrbeji.bin which currently (as of
- October 2022) are hosted via Amazon Web Services. xtra-daemon sets a
- custom User-Agent header with information on the device. GrapheneOS
- stops it from including any unique hardware identifiers and is in the
- process of entirely disabling the User-Agent header to avoid sending
- the device model, manufacturer, etc. to Qualcomm. We're hosting a
- similar PSDS cache for Qualcomm PSDS data and plan to use it by
- default once we implement support for switching between our servers
- and Qualcomm's servers via the same toggle we use for the newer
- Broadcomm GNSS Pixels.</p>
-
- <p>Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC devices also fetch time from
- time.xtracloud.net via NTP rather than using the OS time. Stock Pixel
- OS overrides this to time.google.com but we use the standard server
- like other Snapdragon devices. It's technically incorrect to use the
- time.google.com server for this due to non-standard leap second
- smearing not expected by the Qualcomm GNSS implementation. This could
- be avoided by using OS time instead but Qualcomm built it this way to
- avoid GNSS-based location being crippled by having time set wrong in
- the OS.</p>
+ https://path3.xtracloud.net/xtra3Mgrbeji.bin. GrapheneOS improves the
+ privacy of Qualcomm PSDS (XTRA) by removing the User-Agent header
+ normally containing an SoC serial number (unique hardware identifier),
+ random ID and information on the phone including manufacturer, brand
+ and model. We also always fetch the most complete XTRA database variant
+ (xtra3Mgrbeji.bin) instead of model/carrier/region dependent variants
+ to avoid leaking a small amount of information based on the database
+ variant.</p>
- <p></p>
+ <p>Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC devices also fetch time via NTP from
+ time.grapheneos.org when using the default GrapheneOS PSDS servers or
+ the standard time.xtracloud.net when using Qualcomm's servers. Stock
+ Pixel OS uses time.google.com but we follow Qualcomm's standard
+ settings to match other devices and to avoid the incompatible leap
+ second handling. These connections all go through the Owner VPN so it
+ isn't a real world fingerprinting issue.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Connectivity checks designed to mimic a web browser user agent are performed
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<ul>
<li>Connectivity checks</li>
<li>Attestation key provisioning</li>
- <li>GNSS almanac downloads (PSDS) on 6th generation Pixels</li>
+ <li>GNSS almanac downloads (PSDS) for Broadcom and Qualcomm (XTRA)</li>
<li>Secure User Plane Location (SUPL)</li>
<li>Network time</li>
+ <li>Vanadium (Chromium) component updates</li>
</ul>
<p>We provide a toggle to switch back to Google's servers for connectivity