@GrapheneOS is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they're dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They're pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they're helping criminals.

They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that's a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news coverage when you see it, or just telling someone you know about what's happening. All of it matters because they're drowning in attacks from governments and media and bad actors who want them gone.

This is the only Android OS that actually makes me feel like privacy isn't just marketing. They fight for us now they need us to fight for them.

The EU is pushing Chat Control and creating an environment where governments feel empowered to threaten developers into compliance, and if we stay quiet we're letting it happen. Show up for them in whatever way you're able to.

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[–] antidote@monero.town 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://grapheneos.org/donate#monero

[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Kinda funny when this runs on Google Pixels full of hardware backdoors to begin with.

Will Google not share their backdoors with the French or is there a more purely storytelling reason for these headlines?

[–] ArseneSpeculoos@monero.town 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hardware backdoors and exploits on Google Pixel (if they exist) are too prized to be shared and used to bust random drug dealers.

The more people you share an exploit with, the more it risks getting exposed. You don't want your million dollar hardware exploit to be discovered and patched just because a local police department sent an email to the wrong address.

Here I think that the French want to be able to easily get into ALL mobile devices. They are just having a bad time with GrapheneOS.
Their strategy is to use the media to make people avoid using pixels and GrapheneOS, and when few people use that, the idea that only criminals use that sounds more plausible. You become guilty just by using GrapheneOS, no further proof needed.

[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That all makes perfect sense, but is hilarious when you consider the Pixel's backdoors aren't a secret. The whole "risk of revealing" thing is just funny because these devices openly have closed source shit in them, it's not like they're somehow hiding insidiously subtle exploits within seemingly secure code or something.

French police are embarrassing themselves asking for new backdoors instead of access to existing ones, like it's not public info that there's closed source shit in a Pixel. Random people in the general public embarrass themselves by taking this to mean the closed source shit in a Pixel is magically secure ("otherwise why would the French police be frustrated"). French police probably know more than they're pretending to know, but just willingly embarrass themselves to "keep it secret" even though it's, again, not secret. Or maybe they're just detectives who can't find public info about closed source blobs? More "detectivey" with face to face stuff, not so clever at understanding wiki pages? It's all very silly

[–] Bernard@friends.ravergram.club 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@iloveDigit
Do you know of any devices that contain an open source baseband?

[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

No, not sure they exist