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More bullshit from authoritarian sympathetic media. The vast majority of these abhorrent demographics are not using #GrapheneOS and they don't know what it is:

https://en.ara.cat/society/technological-warfare-the-drug-traffickers-motive-against-the-police-s-trojan-horses_1_5398821.html

It is hilarious that the picture attached barely shows phones that look like Pixels, with weird camera bumps, headphone jacks and colour schemes? Am I supposed to believe this? Based on what is being said, these people are still getting charged (obviously, real world crimes have far more physical evidence than digital evidence), and so what? Why even associate us like this?

Why talk about an operating system like this? Where is all this press for other privacy and security operating systems? Numerous nonprofits around the world and journalists use GrapheneOS as their first choice because it keeps them safe. This kind of press trying to associate our name with crime is unacceptable, unprofessional and authoritarian.

If you play by their standards: Is Snapchat or Telegram crime software because it is an open secret that drug dealers in local areas love to use it? Is Discord or Twitter a service for predators because it's so egregiously popular and their design centered around publicity makes it easy to find accounts run by vulnerable demographics?

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Ike 6mo ago

I hope you guys have made plans to go anon, looks like they are creating context against GrOS

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Final 6mo ago

Some contributors are pseudonymous. The choice for a developer or mod to be is on them. You can't really reverse what you put online about yourself. I can't just disappear and "go anon", and especially not hide at a nation state level. GrapheneOS has been around over a decade and has public founders and people involved for an extremely long time... I had been around since previous namings.

Because of the nature of things like a non-profit foundation, there has to be incorporated directors registered with authorities. Being a mod you wouldn't get much disruption from me if I just had to decide to pack things up.

This isn't all bad as we have a position of trust and accountability, unlike proprietary mobile 'security' projects ran by unknown individuals that get seized by LE for ACTUALLY enabling or being involved in crimes i.e. EncroChat. Seeing what we're up to is helpful.

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Final 6mo ago

Multiple project members have been threatened or been victims with acts of violence i.e. swatting and violent phone calls, and sometimes we stepped in when other projects was known to recieve them.

DivestOS didn't receive them at such a level as us, but the hostile environment made their sole developer quit working on it.

These aren't performed by authorities but bitter external parties.