Mastodawn

@GrapheneOS is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they're dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They're pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they're helping criminals.

They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that's a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news coverage when you see it, or just telling someone you know about what's happening. All of it matters because they're drowning in attacks from governments and media and bad actors who want them gone.

This is the only Android OS that actually makes me feel like privacy isn't just marketing. They fight for us now they need us to fight for them.

The EU is pushing Chat Control and creating an environment where governments feel empowered to threaten developers into compliance, and if we stay quiet we're letting it happen. Show up for them in whatever way you're able to.

#grapheneos #Privacy #NoBackdoors #encryption #security #chatControl

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Corsac Nov 24

@watchfulcitizen @GrapheneOS Can you share the source for the alleged threats and the refusal to add backdoors?

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GrapheneOS Nov 24

@corsac @watchfulcitizen They've made the threats in multiple places publicly including https://archive.is/UrlvK and other interviews. They sent out a memo to all French police telling them to suspect people with Google Pixel phones and to treat it as a special case. They're conflating closed source products marketed as being based on GrapheneOS with GrapheneOS and attributing what those sketchy companies do to us which they're using to justify taking actions they did against SkyECC/Encrochat.

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Tichodrome Colvert Nov 25

@GrapheneOS @corsac @watchfulcitizen "They sent out a memo to all French police telling them to suspect people with Google Pixel phones and to treat it as a special case."

How close is GrapheneOS from being released on other devices? So that other phone brands can have it in order to make Pixel phones feel less exceptionally suspicious to authorities.

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GrapheneOS Nov 25

@tichodrome_colvert @corsac @watchfulcitizen No other devices provide the required hardware-based security features and updates to provide a reasonable level of security. It would not be possible to successfully defend against commercial exploit tools to nearly the extent that we do on any other existing devices.

They can identify another OS is running on any device quite easily unless it's the official stock OS and therefore there isn't a verified boot notice.

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GrapheneOS

@tichodrome_colvert @corsac @watchfulcitizen It's also important to note that French law enforcement is clearly conflating many things which are not GrapheneOS with GrapheneOS. They're calling any closed source product using portions of our code GrapheneOS if it's marketed as being GrapheneOS. They're attributing what various apps do to GrapheneOS itself including device admin apps for providing wipe triggers which are in no way specific to GrapheneOS. Their claims are highly inaccurate.