Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US

Now make it for Graphene

I thought Fairphone was one of the few supported phones. Perhaps I’m thinking of a different phone OS.

No I think you are thinking of calyx.

It wasn’t just the update cycle either, it’s that they don’t have the physical hardware chips to support Graphene’s minimum requirements for security, which would severely weaken any benefits you actually get from GrapheneOS.

not any, but some benefits, and GrapheneOS maintainers are perfectionists

Entirely lacking disk encryption for typical users due to not having a secure element is a pretty major flaw.

It’s also missing hardware accelerated virtualization which is necessary for much of GrapheneOS’s sandboxing, has weak security for other keys in the OS keystore, is missing hardware memory tagging which makes it much easier for apps to use overflow attacks, doesn’t have proper verified boot support once a custom alternative OS is flashed, and leaves exposed debugging APIs even when the phone is locked.

This breaks:

• Secure app spawning
• Memory corruption protection
• Integer overflow protection
• Most of Graphene’s kernel hardening
• Much of Graphene’s attack surface reduction abilities
• Hardware-based attestation and security monitoring
• Quick tile protection pre-unlock
• Debugging access prevention
• Verified Boot
• The security of your PIN against any automated attack

At that point, GrapheneOS can’t physically provide you essentially any security anymore.

It really depends on what security level you want out of a phone. Most people are concerned with a pickpocket stealing and being able to access everything. Most of the world doesn’t need the security level required to pass through the united states border control. Which they will just force to put the pin anyways or put you in jail for even having a secure device.