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GrapheneOS being targeted by France (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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@everyone GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won't include backdoors for law enforcement access. They're conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code. Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. They've made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors. Due to this, we're leaving France and leaving French service providers including OVH. We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms. People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS. /e/ receives substantial government funding. Both are extremely non-private and secure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding. We need a lot more help than usual and we're sending our the first ever notification to everyone on the server because this is a particularly bad situation. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon.
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[–] 21 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Gael Duval (/e/os) wrote as a response:
"I'd like to state *very clearly* that Murena and e Foundation are not related in case to this ridiculous and pseudo-drama.

What we seek is to totally ignore these guys, and have nothing to do with them.

And again, and again, despite what they are repeating, we are NOT competitors, as we are not in the hardened-security market spaces."

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago*

    Again not to defend anyone but you fell in the trap.

    1 - These roms never said anything like we're superior and most secure (something that grapene is proudly advertising)

    2 - By saying these words, only unjustified hate is bring to some FOSS projects and slow down development and adoption to the whole public
    And people are just gonna hate Graphene cause of this and other hating alternatives roms cause graphene said something...

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