Migration of iphone users to GrapheneOS

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Hello, GrapheneOS is talked about everywhere on the french pro apple websites. Many people leave ios for a pixel 6a with GrapheneOS. Congratulations to the dev...

problem0943

It'd be nice if you could mention the website by name or link to it. Is there any particular reason for people switching from iOS?

Standardwaste

problem0943 from https://www.fairtrials.org/articles/news/french-court-rules-that-refusing-to-disclose-a-mobile-passcode-to-law-enforcement-is-a-criminal-offence/

The French Court of Cassation has ruled that people who are suspected or accused of a crime are obliged to reveal the passcode of their mobile phone to the investigative authorities. The Court found that a mobile phone passcode can be considered a “secret decryption agreement of a means of cryptology” (convention de déchiffrement d’un moyen de cryptologie). Refusing to hand over the passcode of a mobile phone is punishable by a fine of up to 270,000 EUR or three years’ imprisonment. This punishment is increased to a fine of 450,000 EUR or five years’ imprisonment where revealing a passcode and giving access to the content of the mobile device could have prevented a criminal offence or reduced its impact.

wonder75

Wow, terrible.

TinFoilHat

Why is it reported that iPhone users in particular are migrating to GrapheneOS. Are they conflating mobile users in general with iPhone users? Doesn't GrapheneOS also have passcode features similar to the ioS and thus there's no extra protection by migrating from that particular OS to GOS?

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TinFoilHat Apple recovers user data from the app store. It is also mentioned in the comments that there are privacy concerns with icloud I believe and data leakage when using a vpn