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So i am installing GrapheneOS rn and i need help:

  1. i want app tracking protection to every app something like duckduckgo's app tracking protection if there is something better?!

  2. someone explain me (with simple words) what is auditor cause i can't understand even if i read about it on GrapheneOS' website (i am like 50% noob with these things)

  3. is my wifi masked automatically with GrapheneOS or should i 100% use a vpn? is there a setting in the OS somewherere? i need a lot of privacy and security to my phone!!!

also tell me additional tips for privacy/security for GrapheneOS if u have any!

thanks a lot!

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[–] sloppy_diffuser 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)
  1. Not sure on this one.

  2. The auditor is to make sure you are installing an authentic version of graphene. That it is not a modified version that has been tampered with (e.g., backdoors).

  3. Automatically enables MAC randomization. This can help with being tracked on public networks. Fingerprinting techniques have gotten better though with deep packet inspection and even measuring radio characteristics. I've seen demos of two brand new and identical models of iPhones being distinctly picked out due to variances in the radios during manufacturing.

Doesn't help with advertisers tracking behavior based on IP. VPNs help with "blending-in" by putting multiple users behind the same IP. Provider matters here. Needs to be a VPN provider that won't just sell your data or cave to law enforcement. Mullvad is my preference. Paid with crypto. RAM only logs. That said, use Tor or I2P for anything you don't want subpoenaed.

For additional tips:

  • Can't remember if its on by default, but auto-reboot to put data at rest (encrypted and not in RAM). This is for a state-actor threat level, and less about advertisers.
  • I prefer pin codes to unlock my device and don't use biometrics. Graphene has a feature to randomize the pin pad every time to protect against a recording of the pin be entered. Specifically where the numbers aren't picked up on the video but the pattern your hand makes can be seen. Again, more of a state-actor threat level.
[–] ballskicker 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I've been eyeing Graphene for a while now but I'm not really a tech person. I fumbled my way through installing and doing basic tweaks on Linux Mint but I don't know the first thing about coding or programming. Is that kind of knowledge a must for this OS or is it more dummy friendly? And what's a good cheap phone to grab to start messing with it and getting familiar, do you have any recommendations on that front?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not really a tech person

You don't say? You reported me to myself on a community that I created, lol.

[–] ballskicker 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's on me. I didn't read the sidebar and assumed a community named similarly to "askreddit" would require posts to have questions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I created the sub (and my instance redlemmy) because they are close enough to Reddit that anyone looking to jump ship might see mine when looking for a new home, but the community is intended to be open-ended and doesn't require a strict format. Intent is to generate discussion

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