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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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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Secure from what? Security isn't a dick measuring contest, it's a living process and arms race. If someone is trying to tell me, "My stuff is the mostest of the biggest security because, hard!" - what I'm hearing is that their threat modeling is ill-defined, maybe not defined at all, and something misleading is going on. Especially when the lead dev of a platform appears to be screaming and shouting about everyone else with a dubious persecution complex.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    You could literally read the GraphineOS documentation whenever you want where it clearly outlines how their hardening works, what security systems they have in place, and how their encryption works. I will warn you its incredibly technical, of course you wouldn't know that because people like you who cant bother to even look at the website (https://www.grapheneos.org/features) wouldn't know what any of it acturally means.

    Tldr: for people who dont understand technical terminology they can trust the project, for people who do they can literally just read the documentation

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    well said!

    imo it's not a coincidence the public are being steered away from supporting graphene. it's one thing to see the general public do this (they will do whatever their told), but seeing countless people who supposedly should know better its quite disturbing.

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