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

@GrapheneOS I would switch to grapheneOS if I could use it on fairphone because I believe in an absolute right to privacy its not just for abusers. I'm not going to get a phone other than the fairphone because it's more important to me that there is no slavery and conflict minerals used in the phone and the modularity is a nice plus too. So unless grapheneOS supports a phone that has these features I can't ethically justify buying a phone without them just to use it.

#GrapheneOS #Android #Fairphone #ConflictMinerals #ModernSlavery

@ambiguous_yelp Fairphones don't come close to meeting our security requirements and we'll never work with a company partnered with Murena. You don't need to give any money or support to /e/ and Murena in order to use a Fairphone. You use LineageOS which is more private and secure than /e/.

Fairphone's claims about updates, long term support, privacy and security aren't accurate. It's possible their Chinese ODM has awful working conditions. They mostly use regular components regardless.

@GrapheneOS @ambiguous_yelp

@GrapheneOS in a fairy world in which Fairphone met your hardware and software requirements, would you consider working with them?