https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117537776055163844
There’s a major state sponsored misinformation and smear campaign towards GrapheneOS in the Netherlands and Germany. The misinformation campaign includes unsubstantiated security claims not holding up to scrutiny to scare people away from it. They’re also heavily misrepresenting who uses it overall.
These smear campaigns conflate GrapheneOS with forks and modifications of it sold by shady companies. Those usually include a device management app to remotely manage the devices of their customers as if they’re employees. These are largely not GrapheneOS devices or have preinstalled malware apps.
France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands are becoming increasingly authoritarian surveillance states with an ongoing crackdown against privacy. It’s happening throughout the whole EU and it’s likely both secure devices and end-to-end encryption without backdoors are going to end up outlawed.
There are a bunch of companies based in the EU selling phones with drastically worse privacy and security than an iPhone including Jolla, Volla, Murena and iodé. These products are effectively backdoored by not providing standard privacy and security patches/protections while misleading users.
Some developer(s) at Graphene OS are basically at war with almost every other project of either degoogled Android or completely alternative operating systems for mobile devices. This kind of language is nothing new, certainly towards e/OS and Jolla. They are routinely not differentiating between security and privacy, while both depend on each other to some extend, they are not the same. If security is your aim, but you don’t care about privacy, Android is probably better than e/OS. If you don’t mind having Google hardware (Motorola is still not a thing and if it will cost a fortune) but want security and privacy, Graphene OS is your best choice, if you don’t mind the toxic rants of some of its developers.
e/OS is fine if you don’t need a hardened phone but want to be more privacy focused than with stock Android, while having a more repairable and ethically produced phone like with a Fairphone. The question is if you are worried about hacking attacks by private or state actors, are rather by the perfectly legal mass extraction of personal data by Google.
Thanks, yeah thats what I guessed. I got a fairphone and mainly want some privacy and create some dark patterns (I think thats how its called) for people that need it. If the state turns hostile I am fucked already…