Security on the operating system is important since we now do various online banking activities. Operating systems for current mobile devices are secure but sometimes undetected vulnerabilities are manipulated by certain parties to hack. India now has its own security-conscious smartphone operating system.
BharOS was developed by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras and is based on Android AOSP. The focus of this operating system is security and user privacy. There are no installed apps in BharOS and they can only be downloaded through Private App Store Services (PASS) which only offers screened apps.
This is not the first operating system that focuses on security but is based on Android. Among the operating systems that have been developed are SilenOS for Blackphone 2 and GrapheneOS for OSM OV1.
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