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Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not like Android is especially open to drive-by contributions anyway. I don't think really changes much for the downstream consumers of the releases.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

It means my GrapheneOS updates will probably be a little slower.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

And yet Graphene will still probably need more private and secure

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How so? If Graphene is based off a release branch, there shouldn't be change in timing. Sure, maybe a little for inspection, but as far as I know Graphene isn't based off main anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

How so?

  • Developers routinely read along with upstream updates that are relevant to them.
  • Google is removing this access.
  • Google is specifically removing access to read along with upstream updates that are relevant to the developers of GrapheneOS.

At minimum, this will slow down GrapheneOS releases and increase bugs in GrapheneOS.

At worst this could cause a new malicious anti-privacy "feature" to ship with GrapheneOS because there's no time to analyze to discover and remove it.

It's almost like Google hates Privacy or something...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

They currently get early access in some capacity, and I wonder if this would impact that.