Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
> Motorola and the GrapheneOS Foundation will work to strengthen smartphone security and collaborate on future devices engineered with GrapheneOS compatibility.
This could be a gamechanger. Congratulations to @GrapheneOS, fingers crossed this works out well!
@dos @mkljczk this is why we can't have nice things, sigh. 
Yeah, I am aware of GrapheneOS's "communication style". It's bad, no question. But I will remain excited about a major mobile vendor teaming up with an project that remains – for better or worse – the gold standard of Android security, as this will help make this level of security available to many, many more people.
@mkljczk @dos yes, "bad" is the word I use.
Within the FOSS community, of which GrapheneOS happens to also be a part of by the way, we have a broader problem with shit-slinging between projects. GrapheneOS is part of that problem and I would love them stop doing that.
At the same time, I live in a world where there are literally no ethical choices. We are communicating via software right now made by an organization that had been on the receiving end of a lot of valid criticism over the years.
@mkljczk @dos people need to be able to access safe, secure, privacy-preserving mobile operating systems made by someone who is not Google and is not Apple.
GrapheneOS – with all their undoubtedly shitty approach to communicating with/about other projects – is an option here, and if that option gets picked up by a major smartphone brand, I am going to celebrate.
Everyone draws their own line somewhere. You're free to draw it differently. 🤷♀️
@mkljczk great, you do you and I wish postmarketOS best of luck, hopefully some large smartphone brand also picks them for a partner and we get real choice in the mobile OS space.
That said, postmarketOS is in no way in the same space as GrapheneOS. As an information security person I would not recommend postmarketOS to people doing dangerous work and being at risk from APTs in a way I would recommend GrapheneOS.
@rysiek @mkljczk So has the one I do, it gets tons of flak, but it hits somewhat different when it's not some random confused "fan" but the main face behind a well-known project that threatens you personally to hamper your professional carrier just because they didn't like getting their bullshit corrected.
And I wouldn't bother to reply if it was just about me. It's an established pattern.
@dos tell you what, I will personally help you call them out on that kind of bullshit next time it happens if you allow me to enjoy for a moment the fact that next time an investigative journalist working on a high-profile story asks for advice I will potentially be able to recommend something else than Apple devices without being dangerously negligent.
@rysiek @dos @mkljczk Someone else was pointing out in their original thread that Motorola is also very deeply in bed with Israel and directly supporting the genocide over there.
With that in mind, we probably can't trust that this will remain openly available. Instead, what we may be watching is Graphene being brought to heel. With much funding comes much control.
Time will tell. I'm going to go ahead and keep breathing normally.
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