This account has been posting lies about what GrapheneOS has said and done for the past several days. Those are being widely propagated across this platform. People are being played.

https://mas.to/@zzt/117246243842026067

This is very clearly a lie about what we said about codeberg and they're also lying about us about deleting posts we haven't. In previous threads they lied about us deleting a file we clearly never deleted and similarly lied about many things we said and did.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117244144803720961

Cryptocurrency enables us to reliably pay a team distributed around the world. It has provided the majority of our funding and is how we're able to run GrapheneOS as a non-profit entirely funded by donations. Many other privacy projects also receive the majority of their donations via cryptocurrency.

We're being attacked because we're transparent about how we're funded, how we pay our team and our general belief in technology protecting people from authoritarian states.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117249820677840570

We strongly believe in privacy including for financial transactions. People should expect nothing less from a privacy project.

It should be obvious we aren't fans of traditional banking and financial services built to enable mass surveillance.

We also aren't fans of unencrypted blockchains and believe those should be fixed.

We believe in the privacy of cash being preserved in the same way we believe in people's private conversations and thoughts being protected.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117249893761790371

Many of the recent threads attacking us are doing so with fabricated stories where they falsely claim we've covered up how we use technologies. In reality, these attacks started because we've been transparent.

The recent attacks began when we replied to a question about how we use AI. After the attacks began, we made a top-level thread explaining our AI policies and how we arrived at those:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117236529351603001

We believe it's the right approach for us minimizing harm and maximizing good.

Directing endless hate towards us with lies, misrepresentations, bullying and vitriol is not going to convince us that we've made any incorrect decision in our approach to this. We believe we're doing a large amount of good with our approach and that it massively outweighs the harm.

AI is being used to harm our users with far more powerful surveillance tech, rapid vulnerability discovery, rapid exploit development and much more. If we did not adapt then we would be failing to protect our users.

LLMs are a massively disruptive technology causing a lot of harm and information security is one of the areas most impacted by it. It has been heavily adopted for offense and defense. It's very scary how good the latest models are at finding vulnerabilities and even developing exploits for those. It isn't viable for GrapheneOS to pretend that isn't the case and skip protecting our users from it. There's an ongoing crisis for privacy and security but attackers only have a temporary advantage.

Privacy and security on computers was always always thoroughly neglected. It is no longer nearly as viable to continue doing so and dismissing it as only mattering in targeted attacks.

The vulnerabilities being discovered were nearly entirely already there and it's a good thing they're getting found and fixed. Many years of technical debt must be repaid. Decisions such as monolithic kernels and massive codebases written in C and C++ must be repaid. We have to somehow keep users safe through it.

Similarly to AI, social media has been an incredibly disruptive and largely harmful technology. The recent days of hive mind abuse towards us are a great example. We're still using social media to publish information about GrapheneOS and communicate. We even have accounts on Facebook and LinkedIn.

No amount of abuse will change our minds about what we believe is the best way to approach the brave new world we live in. We'll continue doing what we believe is best for our users and the world.

An experimental branch in our Camera repository was rebased on top of main which results in the commits being orphaned.

Nothing in that experimental branch is against our publicly stated policies and none of it is hurting code quality. Only high quality code will be merged upstream as always.

We've renamed it from compose to compose-prototype to help address it being misrepresented.

Defederating abusive people and moving content to our top-level feed is also the opposite of a cover-up.

LineageOS and especially operating systems based on it are the opposite of privacy and security hardened. It does not appear to matter to people recommending moving to those throughout these threads that they use generative AI themselves:

https://github.com/LineageOS/charter/blob/main/ai-coding-assistants.md

Here's another recent thread addressing a way people are being misled:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117217086326813038

Motorola Mobility is wholly owned by Lenovo and has nothing to do with Motorola Solutions beyond a shared history prior to 2011.

@GrapheneOS The only real problem I have with GrapheneOS is that there is no pixel phones available in my country. That is a major problem for me and many others as it seems privacy is only available for people who can afford it or lucky enough to have it as an option. I use LineageOS instead, with very small changes to harden it. It's the only rom available for my device (that no longer receives vendor security patches). I am hoping that Motorola partnership will change this.

@alkatraz_200 @GrapheneOS
Obviously, you have a product that is not comparable to the rest, but the comparisons are hateful. People, in general, do what they can, much is that they decide to get out of the comfort of a phone full of bloatware. As you have already been told, not everyone has access or can afford to have a Pixel phone. If Motorolla can change this, well-help it be, but I doubt it could be at an affordable price, let alone at this precise moment.

@ferrebam @alkatraz_200 @GrapheneOS Not everyone can afford a Pixel, but Pixel a-series are one of the cheapest phones on the market. They are often between 300-400 Euro new and can be had for 200-300 Euro second-hand or refurbished.

Anything below that price bracket will simply be a disaster security-wise, not only lacking MTE and a secure element, but also getting irregular to no security updates.

@ferrebam @alkatraz_200 @GrapheneOS The companies that make 50-200 Euro phones are never going to make reliable monthly firmware, driver, and other security updates. It's nearly impossible at those margins.

Even companies with a huge sales volume, like Samsung, only offer quarterly updates on their budget models (A07, A17, A37, etc.).

Claiming that such phones are secure (even with GrapheneOS) would be a lie.