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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Tichodrome Colvert Nov 25

@GrapheneOS @corsac @watchfulcitizen What do you mean by verified boot device? For reference, when I boot my Pixel 7 device on which I installed GrapheneOS, the first thing that appears is a message about an alternative OS to the stock OS being installed, before the Google then GrapheneOS logos. Maybe I don't understand it correctly, but from your message it sounds like the first message about a non-stock OS being used shouldn't appear.

[Edit: after doing some research the "Your device ils loading a different operating system" message seems normal.]

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GrapheneOS

@tichodrome_colvert @corsac @watchfulcitizen What we're saying is that it's easy for them to tell if a device runs another OS through the notice shown at boot for verified boot. If it's locked, it even shows a fingerprint usable to identify the OS. They could have used this to figure out many of the devices they think are running GrapheneOS are clearly actually running something else which explains all the weird features they describe not present in it and even incompatible with our features.