France's cybersecurity agency was previously actively using GrapheneOS. They helped us by auditing our code and submitting bug reports such as this one:
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc/issues/133
They also made suggestions for security improvements to improve protection against exploits.
France was actively using GrapheneOS on a national level via ANSSI. They benefited from our open source code available to them for free as it is to everyone else in the world. This makes it all the more ridiculous that French state agencies are now heavily attacking GrapheneOS.
We're being contacted by a bunch of journalists about French law enforcement agencies sending out warnings about GrapheneOS and contacting the media to fearmonger with false and unsubstantiated claims. Meanwhile, ANSSI actively sought out our code to defend their infrastructure.
Every user of Android and other Linux distributions, macOS and iOS in France has benefited from GrapheneOS contributing to open source projects used in these systems. Ideas we came up with for defenses were also deployed in these. French law enforcement literally uses our code.
Based on our update server download statistics, GrapheneOS is approaching 400k users around the world. A majority of those users are in Europe with a large number in France. Only a small handful of people being arrested who use it is in fact strong evidence against their claims.
Meanwhile, the FBI and European law enforcement facilitated years of organized crime in Europe via Operation Trojan Shield while infringing on our copyright and trademarks. How about they start by arresting themselves? See our other thread about this:
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115589833471347871
Here's France's ANSSI agency proposing an exploit protection to defend against apps being exploited:
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1118
Today, our restrictions for Dynamic Code Loading via both memory and storage cover protecting against this and are enforced for the whole base OS.
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2025
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You cannot consider the French State as a coherent body. ANSSI's aim is making French information systems and especially that of the State more secure. So they will support whatever technology with that target. But the law enforcement have to find evidence in order to get "bad guys" into jail. The more secure the devices of the "bad guys" the hardest. That's why the States are schizophrenic.