I admit I'm curious to know what can be too good to be true about it? I know it's partially a compliment but still curious.
There is still a large amount of enhancements we would love to add and changes we want to make (see the roadmap on our site) so it surprises me people consider GrapheneOS at the current state to be too good.
Half compliment, half incredulity 😂. It's way better than stock android. When something is that good, people who are skeptical get suspicious, that's it.
The unfounded speculation has run through my head that it's so good it might be the perfect gov honeypot and they have a magic backdoor. Then I go to sleep and hope it's not true.
GrapheneOS turns 10 this year, quality work takes time and all of this definitely didn't pop out of nowhere suspiciously. IMO this has been the best past 12 months for GrapheneOS so far. Several vuln disclosures, duress password, Vanadium content filtering and more in a small span of time. We definitely appreciate people coming to support GrapheneOS in droves the past 12 months.
It wouldn't make sense for us to be malicious for many reasons, not every GrapheneOS team member is working in private (e.g. the founder) and we have a Foundation registered in Canada with multiple directors. We participate with the broader cybersecurity community with vulnerability disclosures and such. There's nothing wrong with concealing your identity but in our case, we have reputation and our professional lives on the line not to be evil. How we work is very different and open in comparison to real sting operations ran by governments or scam products owned by criminals.
We dont deny certain people want to break us. We will never say we are impenetrable, but we are aware our work is targeted by threats aligned with governments such as in the leaked Cellebrite documentation where they discuss their failures with GrapheneOS. These people deceit the public with vague and misleading information to discredit us. Our effort the past year is down to fighting back on this attack and our fight is completely in the public eye for people to watch, we already survived a hostile takeover attempt, so we we're very sure we're here to stay.
Godspeed
