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Security researcher/engineer working on mobile privacy/security. Founder of @GrapheneOS.

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Daniel Micay · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · @GrapheneOS · 0 followers · 3,293 stars · 11 repositories · joined November 2022

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I'm a security researcher / software developer working on improving mobile privacy and security. I created the hardened mobile OS project now known as GrapheneOS in 2014 and I've been working on it full time ever since. As part of this work, I've helped to improve privacy and security in upstream projects including the Android Open Source Project, Linux kernel, LLVM, OpenBSD and various others. The contributions upstream include a bunch of successfully landed patches, security bug reports and proposals / design discussions that led to changes being implemented or adjusted.
I focus on systemic privacy and security improvements rather than fixing individual bugs on a case-by-case basis. There are many independent security researchers focusing on finding bugs but very few developing broader privacy and security enhancements, particularly robust implementations suitable for production use. Privacy and security features included in GrapheneOS are expected to have a clear threat model / goals rather than simply providing an obstacle forcing attackers to adapt. The changes go through careful review / testing and they need to be maintained indefinitely including porting them to each new release of the upstream software, rather than making a half baked proof of concept for a specific version and abandoning it like most academic work. Maintenance and porting work is a massive time sink and landing changes upstream to avoid this ranges from difficult to impossible.
I'm currently relying entirely on donations to continue this work. Your sponsorship will support my development of GrapheneOS itself along with the standalone sub-projects including hardened_malloc, Vanadium, Auditor, AttestationServer, PdfViewer and more.

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