Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vollaficationist/116250746129876535

Here's a post where the @vollaficationist clearly refers to themselves as being part of Volla and shares internal information which would only be known to someone working at Volla

This account doesn't belong to someone who uses and supports Volla's products but rather belongs to someone working at the company. Take note of how they claim to respect GrapheneOS at the end of that post. It's an extreme contrast with many of the other posts they've made trying to undermine the GrapheneOS project.

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GrapheneOS Mar 18

We're opposing Volla's Unified Attestation API because it's fundamentally anti-competitive. They've failed to provide any justification for why there needs to be centralized verification through a new API built entirely on top of the Android hardware attestation API. Instead of engaging with our arguments against in good faith, they're repeatedly posting conspiracy theories about GrapheneOS claiming our project is a honey pot. Here's one of several examples.

https://mastodon.social/@vollaficationist/116251069556427406

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GrapheneOS Mar 18

Here's another example visible right above that one in the same sub-thread:

https://mastodon.social/@vollaficationist/116250914503700131

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GrapheneOS Mar 18

Here's Volla trying to push the idea that our opposition to Unified Attestation is being funded by shady forces tied to the US government or tech companies:

https://mastodon.social/@vollaficationist/116251250439901603

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GrapheneOS Mar 18

Here they are doing the same thing while pushing the idea we aren't who we say we are and weren't actually founded by a Canadian in Canada in 2014:

https://mastodon.social/@vollaficationist/116251229357626550

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GrapheneOS Mar 18

Disingenuously misrepresenting our points about the anti-competitive nature of Unified Attestation while pushing their narrative that we're shady forces involved in US intelligence or something similar:

https://mastodon.social/@vollaficationist/116251217622053206

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GrapheneOS Mar 18

Here they're attacking us for supporting secure devices and working with a major Android OEM towards a serious alternative to Pixels. Volla's devices aren't designed or made by them but rather made for them by an ODM. Their devices are bottom of the barrel MediaTek hardware with atrocious security. Those don't meet our standards. That's why we don't do it.

https://mastodon.social/@vollaficationist/116251167689357464

As an example of what they're doing, Volla is partnered with the hide.me VPN company and bundles their software.

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GrapheneOS Mar 18

Here are a series of posts from the Volla employee running @vollaficationist where they misrepresent their hardware as open source, inaccurately claim it's the most private/secure option with no basis and misrepresent white labelled devices from an ODM as being something far more:

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Gaeilgeoir Mar 18

@GrapheneOS The posts from that Volla account sound like rage bait. I really hope that is not an actual Volla employee 😞

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GrapheneOS

@Gaeilgeoir It's nearly certain that it's a Volla employee and we have a good idea of exactly who it is too since we've seen their posted on LinkedIn and communicated with them. We know their writing style from LinkedIn. They had non-public information about when they contacted us.

https://mastodon.social/@vollaficationist/116250746129876535

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Vollaficationist Mar 18

@GrapheneOS Are you an employee of graphene lol?