To you know if wechat or alipay work? I need these while traveling. They use QR codes for payment and other services. I wish this took off everywhere as nfc payments are locked into only a few apps.
Neither can the US. It would be nigh impossible to avoid all apps from both countries. Luckily Graphene solves this problem through OS hardening and sandboxed profiles. The Chinese don’t have some kind of special magic to defeat those measures. This is why Graphene exists IMO
We were talking about having apps installed, not physical access to the device. That’s a huge difference.
The argument still falls apart even if you do move the goalposts to physical access.
If an attacker gets the device, they will need you to not be able to trigger a lockdown/wipe as they pry it out of your hands. If you can’t do that, they will still need your encryption key. Hopefully the device is locked with a strong passcode, and not your face/fingerprint/4-digit birthday. It would be pretty silly for someone to be running GrapheneOS and not do that.
If all those safeguards fail, you’re either very stupid or incredibly unlucky. Regardless, it’s much easier with GrapheneOS than with stock Android to ensure the device becomes worthless in a physical access scenario.
To you know if wechat or alipay work? I need these while traveling. They use QR codes for payment and other services. I wish this took off everywhere as nfc payments are locked into only a few apps.
They do work, might have to adjust permissions a bit tho.
Use a separate phone for them. The Chinese state can not be trusted.
China, the CPC and Xi are a million times more trustworthy than the Trump regime.
Neither can the US. It would be nigh impossible to avoid all apps from both countries. Luckily Graphene solves this problem through OS hardening and sandboxed profiles. The Chinese don’t have some kind of special magic to defeat those measures. This is why Graphene exists IMO
You can harden all you want. If they physically get access to the device, you might as well run around naked.
Both the US and Chinese state can not be trusted. And throw in Russia as well.
All of them are police states at this point.
We were talking about having apps installed, not physical access to the device. That’s a huge difference.
The argument still falls apart even if you do move the goalposts to physical access.
If an attacker gets the device, they will need you to not be able to trigger a lockdown/wipe as they pry it out of your hands. If you can’t do that, they will still need your encryption key. Hopefully the device is locked with a strong passcode, and not your face/fingerprint/4-digit birthday. It would be pretty silly for someone to be running GrapheneOS and not do that.
If all those safeguards fail, you’re either very stupid or incredibly unlucky. Regardless, it’s much easier with GrapheneOS than with stock Android to ensure the device becomes worthless in a physical access scenario.