Privacy Concerns When Installing GrapheneOS

CharlesNCharge

Hi, I’m getting ready to covert a pixel 4 to Graphene to replace my iPhone. I saw that the setup process requires you to plug the pixel into you computer and power on the device.

Could this cause google to tie your computer to the phone, possibly even after the install? In the past year or so I’ve made a big effort to keep my machine google free.

Are there any other privacy issues, or tips & tricks, related to the install that you guys have become aware of after of?

Cheers

abcZ

No. It just uses fastboot protocol to send data (the new operating system) to the phone while its in a very limited mode of operation.

While this is happening, the phone has NO network connection, so it CAN'T report anything to google. The fastboot utility is open source and does not connect to ANY services over the network. You can very literally unplug your network during this operation if you are super paranoid and unable to audit the source code.