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defrosttoday at 4:48 AM1 replyview on HN

GrapheneOS allows for "twin states" with a default vanilla state and additional non obvious parallel accounts that are secured to low level milspec(?)

Popular in Ukraine for keeping captured phone data resistant to opposing forces.

Popular with outlaw gangs for annoying LEO anti gang squads.

Now recommended for battered domestic victims to keep controlling others from spying on digital habits.

An unsuspecting clueless abuser might put the spyware on the vanilla account, the victim can "live with that" assuming that the secure obscure login in safe from spyware apps on the alternative state.

Counterpoint: Not all abusers are dumb, smart people can be toxic. Also - I'm not as clear as I would like to be on the GrapheneOS isolation.


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Walftoday at 7:37 AM

Have you got a link to anything about hiding parallel accounts? I use GrapheneOS, and don't see anything in the UI about it. Am I looking for the wrong thing? From what I can see, it's the same as stock Android's user switching, which has obvious UI elements about switching session.

I see hidden profiles is an open issue, here: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/5003

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