My Research Thesis on the Privacy of GrapheneOS vs. Stock Android

Mmof222 · Nov 8, 2023

Hello community,

over the past 3 months I wrote my bachelor thesis, comparing the privacy aspects of GrapheneOS (with and without Sandbox) vs. a normal stock android on a Google Pixel 6a. It mainly focused on network traffic (how much, domains requested, domain reputation, geographical spread etc.). I thought this may be interesting for you so I decided to share it here with you today.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AIQgxAUhvFjW68pF6thQSPcWHoUkza6l/view?usp=sharing
(Spoiler alert: GrOS is less privacy invasive ;))

Feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Greetings
Martin

Ffreezet · Nov 8, 2023

Kuketz also wanted to do kind of the same thing including other distros, Graphene OS not published yet https://www.kuketz-blog.de/divestos-datenschutzfreundlich-und-erhoehte-sicherheit-custom-roms-teil5/ maybe you already knew.
Thanks for the post.

Hulk · Nov 8, 2023

Nice work @mof222 !
I will read it properly a bit later.
How was your thesis defense, did it go well?

Mmof222 · Nov 10, 2023

Yeah it went well thanks for asking :)

TTitan_M2 · Nov 10, 2023

Hulk How was your thesis defense, did it go well?

I assume it had very strong exploit mitigations.