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trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 days agoIt’s a shame that you still have to support Google by buying their phones to be able to use Graphene OS. I hope one day they’ll support fairphone.
Comment on Excellent tip
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 3 days agoIt’s a shame that you still have to support Google by buying their phones to be able to use Graphene OS. I hope one day they’ll support fairphone.
j4k3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It is not about that. The pixel has a TPM chip (Trusted Protection Module). This is similar to how secure boot works in desktop computers. It is a special external chip that has a secret internal cryptographic key that can never be accessed by anyone. This chip can be used to create secured communications between devices. This is how it is possible to do over the air updates securely and how the device’s security can be checked with a special app and an external device like an old Graphene phone. All files on the device can be hashed with the secret key to determine of they have been changed. Other phones do not include a TPM chip and this is the primary reason they cannot be supported directly by Graphene.
unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
This is phrased like a technical boundary. They are not supported because Graphene chooses not to support them. Not to say it would be easy, but they are making a choice to use Google’s hardware.
They don’t have to.