GrapheneOS22h ago

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

Show threadGrapheneOS22h ago
> we do reduces attack surface. However, we don't have a "hardened security" approach, we aren't developing a phone for pedo(censored) so they can evade justice. So there aren't difficult things to check if the memory is corrupted, really hardened security stuff that could clearly be useful for executives, in the secret service, or whatever. That's not our goal, our goal is to start from an observation: today our personal data is constantly being plundered and that wouldn't be legal in real life
Show threadGrapheneOS22h ago
> with the mail or the telephone, we want to change that. So we are making you a product that changes that by default for anyone.
Show threadGrapheneOS22h ago

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

Show threadGrapheneOS22h ago
> si la mémoire est pas corrompue, des trucs de sécu vraiment durcis qui pourraient être utiles clairement pour des dirigeants, dans les services secrets ou que sais-je. C'est pas notre but, notre but c'est de partir d'un constat, aujourd'hui nos données personnelles sont pillées en permanence et ça serait pas légal dans la vraie vie avec le courrier ou le téléphone, on veut changer ça. Donc on vous fait un produit qui change ça par défaut pour n'importe quelle personne.
Show threadGrapheneOS22h ago
GrapheneOS exists to protect users from having their privacy invaded by arbitrary individuals, corporations and states. Privacy depends on security. GrapheneOS heavily improves both privacy and security while providing a high level of usability and near perfect app compatibility.
Show threadGrapheneOS22h ago
/e/ has far worse privacy and security than the Android Open Source Project. They fail to keep up with important standard privacy and security patches for Android, Linux, firmware, drivers and HALs. They fail to provide current generation Android privacy and security protections.
Show threadGrapheneOS22h ago
For years, Gaël Duval has spearheaded a campaign to misrepresent GrapheneOS as not being usable, not compatible with apps and only useful to a tiny minority of people. He has repeatedly claimed GrapheneOS is for pedophiles, criminals and spies while claiming /e/ is for everyone.
Show threadBlue Luma21h ago

@GrapheneOS I don't think you should attack frontally others like that whenever 😶

Reminding security is privacy is good.
Responding to attacks is good (which is not the case *here*)

I understand its CEO and the Murena company might have attack the GrapheneOS project in the past, and responding to that was normal too.

But I don't see attacking /e/OS like that often as a positive feedback in general. A simple reminder could have been enough.

❤️ on the GrapheneOS project btw

Show threadBlue Luma21h ago
@GrapheneOS I prefer seeing post about GrapheneOS or Android security from your account than continous attacks on other projects (even if they are legitimatel), but that's my personal opinion
Show threadGrapheneOS

@blueluma /e/, Murena and Duval have been continuously attacking the GrapheneOS project for many years. They've misled a huge number of people about what GrapheneOS provides. Many people wrongly believe GrapheneOS isn't for them because of this.

GrapheneOS is a highly usable OS with far broader app compatibility than /e/. Unlike /e/, GrapheneOS has major privacy enhancements instead of rolling back privacy compared to the Android Open Source Project. /e/ adds a bunch of invasive apps/services.

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Show threadGrapheneOS5h ago

@blueluma Gaël Duval has repeatedly claimed serious privacy and security projects are only for pedophiles, criminals and spies. They've specifically said this about GrapheneOS many times but have also attacked Signal before too.

Duval, /e/ and Murena aren't on the same side. They're doing what they think will make them money which is compromising between privacy and state access. They present protecting privacy from more than American corporations as nefarious. They're undermining privacy.