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Installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 10 yesterday, only used the stock rom to start the installer... Am feeling a little unconfortable due to this situation: [0]. Hope this gets better. Really feeling the dislike for Google on this one.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741510

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It was shipped in the latest GrapheneOS release. It's currently in the Alpha channel due to reports of carrier compatibility issues for calls which are fixed in today's release. Today's release should be able to reach Beta in a couple hours and then Stable in under 24 hours.

Great work! Thanx!!

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2026091700

Fixes/updates the modem firmware.

Ah that's great news! Do you know how to force an upgrade?

It's in the alpha channel for now, you have to join the alpha channel to get it immediately (at your risk).

FWIW, I installed it on the Stable channel yesterday. It's impressive given the situation.

That linked article really blows apart 10-years of Pixel security posturing. Numerous press articles about the security of its Titan chip, "most secure phone ever," etc.

(HN types would snicker, "Google's getting all your data, it's not secure" but that wasn't the conversation.)

I'm glad they disclosed it, but what a huge black eye.

The titan chip is still secure. I do not know about "the most secure," but it is very good. The linked article does not relate to the Titan chip anyway. The article is about privilege escalation in the modem, which is a separate component with its own privileges that does not automatically translate to the AP, userspace/kernel, or titan unless there is a chain attack we are unaware of. The reduced attack surface is because of Google's isolation design.

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