Calyx has lackluster security practices, and even removes signature checking so they can sell microG as Google Play Store to apps. This is an objective statement, graphene OS is leagues ahead of anything on the market in terms of security, while calyx is basically just a custom ROM to tinker with.

As for the personal aspect, the lead developer is definitely not the best representative of the project from a communication perspective as he might not have that kind of social skills (based on his posts). [1]

But he (Micay) is an excellent security researcher, and has an excellent track record when it comes to prioritizing his users. There was a sponsorship in the beginning, where the legal entity, CopperheadOS tried to hijack the whole project. But Micay rather kill the project, than let the users' security suffer and revoked the signing keys. And I'm sure such a betrayal would cause anyone to lose a lot of faith in others' actions.

> Give that person root

Complete bullshit, what root?! And if anything, you are the one who are trying to discredit a project here, by sharing some dumb clickbait video.

[1] I see that there is now a project manager doing most of the communication, which is an excellent solution!

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onli 2 days ago | parent [-]

Do I have to explain what root is, or what are you not understanding about the concept of the software provider having complete control of the software on your phone and thus having root rights?

Your CopperheadOS description is one perspective, one that does not look all that believable now after his mental illness became clear.

I did not share the video, but I would and it is not clickbait.

I will not further respond to you, I don't think this would lead to a fruitful discussion. Kindly think about what kind of trust is necessary to trust in the proper functioning of a device as personal as a modern phone, and think about attack scenarios that could occur when the main developer of your OS is not trustworthy in the slightest.

	▲	other8026 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> after his mental illness became clear. Here you are again in yet another comment repeating these baseless claims about mental illness. > think about attack scenarios that could occur when the main developer of your OS is not trustworthy in the slightest. First of all, he's not the main developer. There are multiple developers. The other developers do most of the development work these days. But to say that the OS is untrustworthy is completely false. You say GrapheneOS's founder has a mental illness based on watching a video where someone turned malicious toward the project recorded a conversation where the founder was extremely upset after being swatted multiple times. The update client doesn't send identifiers when checking for updates, and the update servers only have static files saved to them. You're making stuff up here, and clearly trying to turn people off of using GrapheneOS by repeating baseless claims that the founder is crazy and fake worries of being targeted by them.