cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/41272884
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.
I doubt that iodé or Murena are attacking GrapheneOS. They have awful PR and communications and a history of acting like a suggestion or a minor critique is some sort of attack.
https://mastodon.social/@gael/115587915257025086
(Gaël Duval is a rather well-known member of the open source community)
It is “subreddit drama” and pity marketing…
However, Graphene is the more secure and hardened device. Other alternatives don’t really make the same promises and are just alternatives or “degoogled” ROMs.