alt Hacker NewsThis looks hugely blown out of proportion. The project founder has a well documented history of what I would consider a persecution complex. Once again he has provided no substantial evidence. The only thing they provided are some, admittedly borderline libelous, news articles. Unless they provide some more concrete information about these supposed attempts of getting a backdoor installed into the system, I will consider this as just another day of GrapheneOS drama.
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Don’t you need that sort of paranoia to go out and create a privacy focused mobile OS?
>The project founder has a well documented history of what I would consider a persecution complex.
Source?
What happened to the founder of Telegram should be enough to discourage any of them to travel in France.
Especially since I guess they do not have the same kind of money and influence to fight it back.
I mean, maybe?
Multiple accounts have said the same thing in this thread, and I'll be honest here: given the Jia Tan situation, it could be true (in the way that he's being pushed by external forces). It could it be character assassination... Or it could be totally valid: idk.
But what I do know is that nobody is providing any citations.
I also know that progress depends on the tyranny of unreasonable people.
The evidence is not "news articles", but the contents of those articles where a high-ranking prosecutor threatened to go after GrapheneOS "if they don't cooperate with the law".
No matter your feelings about the creator, I think this was entirely the rational choice.
France is pro-Chat Control. For about a year now there's been an anti-drug trafficking fervor among legislators and government, in which they've pushed for encryption backdoors (separate from Chat Control at the EU level) and recently threatened GrapheneOS. The country is politically unstable so future politics are hard to predict, but anti-encryption politicians stand a good chance of winning the next election. Any rational project would move out.