12 Facts About CopperheadOS

CopperheadOS is a mobile operating system for smartphones, based on the Android mobile platform.

CopperheadOS is developed by Copperhead, a Canadian information security company.

Development of CopperheadOS began in 2014, and the operating system had an initial alpha release in August 2015.

CopperheadOS project was started in 2014 by Copperhead, an information security company based in Toronto, Canada.

CopperheadOS was founded in the same year by James Donaldson, the CEO, and Daniel Micay, the CTO and lead developer, and initially served clients in the Canadian legal and intelligence industries.

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At first, CopperheadOS was licensed under the GNU General Public License, and the project's code was located on GitHub.

For Pixel phones, users could either buy a phone from the Copperhead store with CopperheadOS pre-loaded, or send their own phone to Copperhead for the operating system to be installed on it.

In March 2019, Copperhead released a version of CopperheadOS based on Android Pie, which had support for the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.

CopperheadOS is focused on hardening the Android operating system to make it more difficult for attackers to exploit any potential security vulnerabilities.

CopperheadOS features verified boot, which protects against malware taking over the boot process or the recovery process of the device.

In 2016, The Tor Project released a prototype smartphone based on CopperheadOS named the Tor Phone, which gave users the ability to route their network connections through Tor for anonymity.

CopperheadOS was chosen for its focus on security, in particular its use of verified boot and its prevention of system apps being overridden by apps from the Google Play Store.