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All I see is a bunch of drama. Daniel Micay is also no longer the head of GrapheneOS.
IDK maybe beyond the wall of text there is some actual technical criticism, but I'm not going to sift through a bunch of unrelated pictures to find it.
GrapheneOS very recently reported two CVEs affecting Android, with one not affecting GrapheneOS due to their mitigations.
GrapheneOS has many features which are clearly visible to users and don't really exist elsewhere - eSIM without Google Play, sandboxed Google Play, additional "Sensors" permission just to name a few.
Edit: I watched the Louis Rossmann video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0, and he also only talks about drama related to Daniel Micay (while clearly not saying anything negative about the project on a technical level).
This argument is going nowhere.
https://grapheneos.org/features lists features of GrapheneOS which differentiate it from AOSP. Are you claiming this is all fake?
Is the Pixel 8 not the first device to support MTE? Is hardened_malloc pointless? And I literally listed 3 more features exclusive to GrapheneOS in my last comment.
hardened_malloc is a replacement for the libc function malloc. It is not part of Linux.
MTE is hardware-based, and is in fact restricted to Pixels currently (8+) AFAIK.
As I said in my first comment to you, do more research.
They are not buzzwords. I do agree that the project and its members could improve in many ways, but this is unfortunately true for many security focused projects.
You also made incorrect claims, bordering on lies honestly, as you didn't seem to be familiar with hardened_malloc and MTE at all, and then doubled-down and called them buzzwords and then deflected in this very comment by claiming you meant "the ultimate result is not much more than buzzwords". Then you proceeded to personally insult them.
Your behavior is much less extreme but not so different to the kind of behavior you're criticizing. But at least Daniel Micay and his "minions" are working very hard to enhance the security and user experience of their users, even if you believe their efforts amount to minor improvements at best. So why should I trust you over them?