If everything you posted in this thread wasn't so demonsrably, and pathetically stupid, I might be able to take you somewhat seriously. But they are, so I can't.
What do you get out of attacking everyone who engages with you?
Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but your description isn't that technically interesting - no aspects of getting Graphene running on the devboard, or other difficulties integrating the parts. The idea of separating out the baseband isn't really novel either. A decade ago I gave a shot at using a mifi+tablet to move in that direction, and to see how far I could get without a proper voice plan. (I eventually got bored and moved on). You're not sitting on some super special idea here, and this vague passive voice "existence proof" style of writing is cagey and tedious to read. Which is probably how I ended up skipping over some actual details.
But do you know what is very interesting? That you've found a niche where the backpack form factor isn't a huge drawback, as well as group(s) of people who actually appreciate the threat model enough to keep spending extra effort doing a nonstandard thing. Those are all social factors that could actually sustain this type of device, rather than merely being passing curiosities that users eventually move on from. Basically it needs to be easy for people to piece together such a setup while mindlessly following a guide, as well as point other curious people to a description of it - the polar opposite of the trash elitist attitude you're pushing. (eg what specific dev boards straightforwardly run Graphene? I don't see any listed on the website)
And so if you actually care about widespread communications security rather than just being some combative wanker on a message board, please please please try to level up your wisdom for your next sockpuppet nym.
> of people who actually appreciate the threat model enough to keep spending extra effort
The "product" is already successful. Some spent effort, others spent money.
Those who did the latter include defense contractor or other government backgrounds, ""conservative"" (aka normal people) moms who were censored on Facebook and Twitter as early as 2019 and had enough pattern recognition to know the unlawful censorship reached all the way up into the federal government, journalists, and some are in the category of politician.
Think of what Tucker Carlson shared with the public "the NSA got into my Signal account, which I didn't know they could do". I don't expect our solution to stand up to NSA, but unlike a retail device the starting point of the digital playing field on my camp's solution doesn't let digital intrusion be a cakewalk for "glowies" like retail devices do. Glowies have to work significantly harder to compromise what we have.
Some of the "Instagram famous" gen Z stereotypical "hot girls" who are computer illiterate and generally aloof (vapid on the surface) were immediately willing to tolerate the overhead of "touchscreen cabled to a backpack" when they were told "when you do a call with mom or dad, that call does actually stay protected". Trashy aka "low socioeconomic status" people don't give a shit about family privacy/autonomy, but these people do give a shit about it.
All aforementioned categories of users have already experienced suffering abuse, or anticipate being abused, or they simply have enough dignity in their life that they're not going to just give it away like typical retards do ; they are not going to "eventually move on" from "this computer I carry on my person every day is not designed for me to get fucked over" and then downgrade to a retail device that is by design (in one way or another) positioned to fuck them over. Sans a "burner" device for some specific narrow purpose (Instagram presence) that has had its internal mic gutted and has hardware shutters on its cameras.
The technical concept is what I am allowed to post about so that's what I did. As I already wrote earlier (and also then later cited I had written), something cohesive will be posted later this year, and if the person I expect to do it doesn't then I'll do it myself. Or, one of the other existing players in the space will, or someone else entirely (and I'd be perfectly happy with that).
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> You're not sitting on some super special idea here
I appreciate you acknowledging this point, a point that I had emphasized, and I feel I had done so rather clearly, several times above. Many Qubes users have been doing this since 2018.
The essential thing my camp did that was "special" was package it professionally in a way that "normie" users can succeed with it out-of-the-box.
Like with any specific operating system and hardware combination there are implementation specific bugs here and there, but nothing major.
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> how far I could get without a proper voice plan.
Some use "2FA mule", like this https://kozubik.com/items/2famule/ ; though we advise to physically remove the microphone of the 2FA mule and presume any WiFi/Bluetooth traffic from it is hostile.
Those who need PSTN (legacy phone network) voice or 911 can use another device for that.
No one using our mini-backpack is missing out on any functionality they actually need.
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> eg what specific dev boards straightforwardly run Graphene? I don't see any listed on the website
I do appreciate you bothering to look. I actually do. There are boards that can run with zero blobs, they are intended for production use as sold, so long as they can run a Linux kernel and have a GPU that Android can use, they can run GrapheneOS.
Our solution is not supported nor known about by the GrapheneOS project, we have our own branch and cicd and all that.
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> Which is probably how I ended up skipping over some actual details.
Yeah, the performance (or lack thereof) of your reading comprehension has been rather noticeable.
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> the polar opposite of the trash elitist attitude you're pushing.
Okay but no matter what happens, I will always get more money and more pussy than you.
