Our thread at bsky.app/profile/grap... was posted to spread awareness about the auto-reboot feature we've been advocating for inclusion across platforms now that iOS 18.1 shipped it at the end of October. We also wanted to address confusion based on weird police theories about it. - ThreadSky

grapheneos.org • 113 days ago

Our thread at https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3lahyve4xh223 was posted to spread awareness about the auto-reboot feature we've been advocating for inclusion across platforms now that iOS 18.1 shipped it at the end of October. We also wanted to address confusion based on weird police theories about it.

Reposted from GrapheneOS

iOS 18.1 added an implementation of the auto-reboot timer for locked devices we've been using in GrapheneOS since June 2021:

chaos.social/@jiska/11344...

This was one of our early generation protections against forensic data extraction. We added a lot more protections this year.

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grapheneos.org•113 days ago

There was a major cycle of news coverage about police theorizing devices mostly running earlier versions than iOS 18.1 were detecting lack of cellular and rebooting nearly devices. That didn't make sense and we posted a few replies explaining why such as https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1854646186067869922.

grapheneos.org•113 days ago

Based on the information made public, a significant portion of the devices police were talking about were running earlier versions. We mentioned a few times it was possible for Apple to add a more sensible timer and that it's possible they already did.

https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1854647231015796982

grapheneos.org•113 days ago

We're clearly excited about broader adoption of a nice feature defending against forensic data extraction. It should also come across that we're disappointed Google didn't ship it faster and want to encourage them to implement our proposal for it from January 2024 based on this.

grapheneos.org•113 days ago

In our thread, we reiterate that it has nothing to with cellular or devices rebooting each other, which didn't make sense:

https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3lahzosgfdk23

It's very new, so it's also not why the police had many older devices reboot as pointed out by the researcher to find it.

grapheneos.org•113 days ago

Someone with a large following is heavily misrepresenting our posts as being attacks on Apple and anger towards Apple. They're also using it as an opportunity to promote harassment towards one of our project members based on fabricated stories about them after they were swatted.

grapheneos.org•113 days ago

We do not think anything we've posted remotely comes across that way. We tried reaching to them and several of their followers to talk it out but that didn't work out. We don't think any of what we posted comes across as negative towards Apple, only Google being slow to ship it.

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