Linage can hide as much as graphene. Graphene just throwing silly features at you that are basically useless. If you wanna hide from tech companies Lineage works perfectly. If you wanna hide for from government agencies get a flip phone. Only thing grapehene can currently do over lineage is get you an easy felony.
LineageOS doesn't keep up with very important standard privacy/security patches and protections. This post is a clear example where it took until October 2026 to ship crucial privacy/security patches and protections from June 2026.
GrapheneOS greatly improves upon the increasingly inadequate privacy and security provided by Android. It fixes many privacy and security vulnerabilities along with adding important missing privacy and security protections.
Traditional cell phones lack any form of secure communication and are entirely dependent on cellular. Those lack basic updates and security protections in practice too. Those are the opposite of a more private and secure device. A smartphone with GrapheneOS or iOS is far more private and secure than any traditional desktop/laptop computer at a hardware, firmware and software level.
> This post is a clear example where it took until October 2026 to ship crucial privacy/security patches and protections from June 2026.
I don't think that's true (although I see how that could be inferred from the post), I think the post is saying what has been done in the last few months, not at the time that the post has been released.
You can find the changes where the security strings were updated on Gerrit, including in the commit message which were implemented, previously implemented, not implemented (empty for the ones I checked) or not applicable. https://review.lineageos.org/q/subject:%22release:+Bump+Secu...
Images are built weekly, so it should take up to 7 days after the change is merged for it to be available for a device via the updater.
