We reported vulnerabilities being exploited by forensics companies in January 2024, but we lacked access to their exploits so we couldn't provide full details. We suggested implementing 2 major security improvements:
1) firmware-based reset attack mitigation zeroing memory on boot
2) wipe-without-reboot support in the OS to avoid needing to reboot to recovery to perform a wipe, which could be trivially interrupted by an attacker
They ended up shipping both of these.
GrapheneOS /
npub1kw…se0nj
2024-09-05 19:40:04
in reply to nevent1q…0e38
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wss://relay.noswhere.comPublished at
2024-09-05 19:40:04Event JSON
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