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Info thread: #GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won't include backdoors for law enforcement access to our software. They're conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code. Considering it is easy to search GrapheneOS online and read our documentation, you can only assume this is intentional. Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. This has even escalated to broadcast media. They've made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors. Due to this, we're leaving French service providers and will leave / never operate in France. In these attack pieces, they describe GrapheneOS with features not present in our software and showing sites and guides not in our control nor authored by us. We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms. People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS. /e/ receives substantial government funding. Both are extremely non-private and insecure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding. We need a lot more help than usual and we're sending out a notification for situational awareness. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon. Spread the word about this current situation. Initial thread:
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We were contacted by a journalist at Le Parisien newspaper with this prompt: > I am preparing an article on the use of your secure personal data p...
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Here's another French journalist participating in fearmongering about GrapheneOS. That article is not measured. It provided a platform to make both...
 Thread about the FBI and European law enforcement selling devices to criminals using GrapheneOS code:
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Please listen to this podcast about ANOM: https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/146/ The FBI ran a sting operation in Europe where they created t...
 Thread about how ANSSI (French national cybersecurity agency) contributed to GrapheneOS:
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France's cybersecurity agency was previously actively using GrapheneOS. They helped us by auditing our code and submitting bug reports such as this...

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Interview of French federal prosecutor saying that not providing them with backdoors is unacceptable and they'll go after us with charges if we don't cooperate with them: archive.is/UrlvK There's a very direct threat towards us in that article. They've made it clear they do not consider it acceptable for there to be devices they cannot break into. In that interview, there's a clear statement they'll go after us as they did others if we don't "cooperate" with them. The demands they have from us are unspecified but we're not going to wait around to find out what they expect from us. #GrapheneOS will exit remaining global infrastructure in France and OVH as soon as possible. We do not feel safe operating in a country with federal law enforcement agencies lying about us and threatening us. France's government is a strong supporter of backdoors for secure messaging apps including heavily supporting Chat Control. They appear to have the same position on secure devices. Their previous law enforcement action against both was done based on claims of ties to criminals. In some of the cases, it was clear the companies were tied to criminals. One of those companies was an FBI sting operation from early on which was advertising itself as being based on GrapheneOS. Maybe some of the ones they're conflating with us are also sting operations too. They're conflating shady companies selling products they say are based on GrapheneOS with us. ANOM was a sting operation by the FBI paying criminals to sell phones to criminals while advertising it as being based on GrapheneOS. Since when is the FBI facilitating crimes in France our fault?
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Always remember that in 2011, the French state and the media it controls organized and carried out the second NATO war of aggression against Libya, which completely destroyed that country. The first NATO war of aggression took place 25 years earlier. Nothing about this state or the European Union is trustworthy.