This is an extreme misrepresentation of both what Gaël Duval said in this interview and our response to it. What he clearly said is that /e/ and Murena aren't providing security hardening which he claims is only useful for pedophiles, criminals and spies. Gaël Duval has repeatedly said this in his posts including ones where he directly says GrapheneOS is only useful for pedophiles, criminals and spies. We can show archives of numerous posts with him saying exactly that.

https://tilde.zone/@notthebee/116358115664425978

We shared a video of Gaël Duval once again making these claims because that's harder to dismiss than his written posts across platforms. He has made the same claims in both French and English. Multiple /e/ supporters participating in ongoing attacks on GrapheneOS with inaccurate claims have tried to dismiss this based on him not explicitly mentioning GrapheneOS in the video and by spinning what he said. That's fine, we can make another thread with a collection of his posts saying this elsewhere.

Duval has a history of claiming serious privacy and security protections only help pedophiles, criminals and spies. He has explicitly smeared GrapheneOS this way repeatedly, but also attacks privacy projects in general as he did there.

/e/ and Murena products have poor privacy and atrocious security. Here's information on that with links to coverage by third party experts:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-standard-privacysecurity-patches-and-protections-arent-private

We can make an expanded article with more info and more links to 3rd party experts included too.

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Bon, et si on parlait de façon plus positive de GrapheneOS maintenant?