Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. Duval and his organizations have consistently taken a stance against protecting users from exploits. In this video, he once again claims protecting against exploits is only useful for pedophiles and spies.
Translation to English:
> There's the attack surface, on that front we're not security specialists here, so I couldn't answer you precisely, but from the discussions I've had, it seems that everything
Transcription in French:
> Il y a la surface d'attaque, là pour le coup on est pas des spécialistes de la sécurité, donc je ne pourrais pas te répondre avec précision, mais des discussions que j'ai eu, il semblerait que tout ce qu'on fait, ça réduit la surface d'attaque. Donc oui, probablement ça aide. Par contre, on a pas une approche "sécurité durcie", on développe pas un téléphone pour les pédo(bip) pour qu'ils puissent échapper à la justice. Donc il y a pas des trucs pas possibles pour voir
Here are several particularly egregious examples:
Gaël Duval and Murena participated in these attacks. They even spread harassment content towards our team and shared it with sites attacking us.
Les téléphones Google Pixel équipés du système d’exploitation GrapheneOS permettent à des criminels de dissimuler leurs échanges. Johanna Brousse, magistrate spécialisée dans la lutte contre la cybercriminalité, explique quels sont les moyens de la justice pour contourner ce type d’outils.
/e/ and Murena have their own privacy invasive behavior in their apps and services. One particularly egregious example is their supposedly private speech-to-text service sending user data to OpenAI without consent instead of doing most locally like Apple:
https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using-open-ai/70509
Thank you a lot for your positive and supporting comments about our new /e/OS Voice-to-text! Regarding its implementation in /e/OS, I’d like to explain a few things to explain why we have chosen an OpenAI STT API to implement it and how it’s going to evolve in the future: What we have learned from our experimentations with STT models that run locally on the smartphone for speech recognition: they work quite poorly, they make a lot of mistakes in voice recognition they are not able to mix la...
@luckychronic @GrapheneOS https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
They haven't announced the release date nor the phones that are getting GrapheneOS, only the partnership for now.
@GrapheneOS Le Parisien :
"Ces engins jusqu’à présent inviolés, qui protègent les communications et qui ne partagent pas les données sur les serveurs, sont un nouveau défi que le parquet cyber entend bientôt relever."
C'est exactement pareil avec Signal sur Android si on n'utilise pas le cloud, ils nous prennent pour des imbéciles.
The article is behind a paywall...
@claude_champagne Here's a paywall bypass for the 2 paywalled articles above:
The third one doesn't have a paywall and there are many more similar articles across other sites. We didn't want to link the ones where our team was personally targeted by a tech news site heavily misrepresenting our statements and adding up the total amount of tweets we posted over a week mainly as replies to questions to misrepresent as being on our main timeline.
@GrapheneOS This is clearly a smear campaign against the project.
Is there any chance this could seriously harm the project to the point of affecting the partnership with Motorola?
@bohwaz @joe_vinegar Ehm, the thread literally starts with a video? It's pretty clear who they are attacking.
Why are you defending a company that says "security is only for pedophiles and spies"?
@bohwaz @joe_vinegar Ok, I think we can at least agree that Gael Duval's statement implies that phones that do security hardening are for criminals and spies?
Now, next, which serious projects (not snake-oil security phone companies) focus on phone hardening?
So, in what way is he not attacking @GrapheneOS ?
(Perhaps ironically, he is also attacking iOS and Pixel OS, but that will whoosh past his audience, since most people do not know about Apple/Google's hardening efforts).
@bohwaz @joe_vinegar @GrapheneOS Put differently, he is using the "think of the children"-argument to attack anyone who has better privacy and security than them.
This effort to make security and privacy suspect puts them really in the same camp as the people using similar arguments for Chat Control, weakening cryptography, mandatory age verification, etc. They are amplifying this "security is only for bad people"-narrative.
Murena is *not* a privacy company.
"And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." - Nicholas Klein, trade union attorney (1918) [Often attributed to Schopenhauer 1819, or Gandhi 1920]
@tedstechtips @GrapheneOS Allowlisting requests & assets by default (yes this also breaks everything by default until one allows strictly what they need).
Unfortunately umatrix died a while ago and I'm not aware of anyone else doing it to anywhere near the same degree as it did.
An additional problem is that if the "legitimate" destination is also malicious, umatrix cannot help.
When Asked about age verification on their support forum, @murena buried and merged my question onto another topic which:
- had nothing to do with it;
- would have been closed after a couple of days not allowing more replies;
- and been vague about it, infact not stating their position.
Not really what you would expect from a company praising Privacy as their flagship.
Shame on me for being so naïve to trust them, and those who bought their devices
https://community.e.foundation/t/uk-government-voting-on-age-verification-for-vpn-users/78533/44
A form of age verification is likely to happen, also within the EU, and I don’t disagree with this in principle, because I see how young people are vulnerable. What I do disagree with is if this is left to the market and this becomes just another source of information for companies to better micro target advertisements. Reading the weathervane, it’s the most achievable to try to convince lawmakers of the dangers of that and to develop a tool that will just reveal the bare minimum (adult or no) a...
@GrapheneOS to be fair they don't promise security, only privacy. at least in their foreword on their website here.
I don't think it's by accident that they don't even use the word secure, or security, on the whole page.
I've seen claims before where they claim it's better than GrapheneOS. But in what regard? Maybe degoogling and having alternatives pre-installed? GrapheneOS is probably more involved to get the same apps. That's the only way /e/ is better in my opinion
ECOSYSTEMKEY FEATURESGET /E/OSNEED HELP /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled”, mobile ecosystem /e/OS is an open-source mobile operating system paired with carefully selected applications. They form a privacy-enabled internal system for your smartphone. And it’s not just claims: open-source means auditable privacy. /e/OS has received academic recognition from researchers at…
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