> Just a month ago lots of you on this site were telling me that 51% attacks on blockchains were almost entirely theoretical.
Here's another one (and changing subject): point out that GrapheneOS, which is a privacy focused mobile OS, ONLY supports Pixel, which is a phone produced by Google whose interests are surveillance. People will tell you that your concerns are theoretical.
Shockingly, the Google-produced operating system that GrapheneOS is based on is easiest to build targeting Google-produced devices.
Google is also as far as I'm aware one of only two mainstream vendors, and the only one making flagship-tier devices, that reliably offers bootloader unlocking as a feature so you can install alternative operating systems without having to first crack the device.
My point was that if the people who control X have interest that X be Y, then X will become Y over time, even if it's not Y currently.
Sure maybe the people with Google phone X but over time we should expect that Google will find a way to Y, because that's where its interests lie. (And actually, we've seen it do exactly this many times. Chrome being the most obvious example).
Here's yet another example. If voters can be bought by promising them money, then we should expect that politicians will start promising money to voters in order to be elected.
Etc etc, do you see the pattern? My point wasn't actually about privacy, or Google, or Monero.
We can expect when Google puts surveillance chips in their Pixel phones, those will no longer be supported by Graphene. While they don't, may as well take advantage of them, right? Out of all the Android phones, Pixels are the most open (possibly because they don't have to follow Google's oppressive contracts with manufacturers).
>Here's another one (and changing subject): point out that GrapheneOS, which is a privacy focused mobile OS, ONLY supports Pixel, which is a phone produced by Google whose interests are surveillance.
The Google-proprietary software is entirely replaced. Why the FUD?
I guess the FUD would be on the hardware and also on the other piece of software, a fully separate OS if I understand correctly, that runs the radio side of things on the device...
Here's another one (and changing subject): point out that GrapheneOS, which is a privacy focused mobile OS, ONLY supports Pixel, which is a phone produced by Google whose interests are surveillance. People will tell you that your concerns are theoretical.
People just don't learn.