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.
OP seems to conflate technological illiteracy and incompetency of Bureaucrats with malice.
Not that the outcome cannot be the same, I just don’t see any Central European government to be competent enough on technology matters.
You think in the age of age verification and constant attempts to force backdoors into encrypted apps that it’s just incompetence that has them slandering Graphene? No, they’ve been advised well enough to know exactly what they’re doing here. They’re intentionally discouraging people from using secure devices.
Advocating for backdoors while at the same time believing that those very same backdoors cannot be used against their own government is 100% incompetence.
Oh, they’ll get more secure options. They’re special. But yes, it will definitely open the populace to attacks by other actors. That’s just a secondary concern to being able to spy on you.
Considering that the German far right AFD had their entire Email history leaked like a month ago since all of it was stored unencrypted, I honestly doubt they get anything more secure working.
If you think that European countries will get backdoor-free versions of US software, you’re dreaming.
Europeans? Oh god no. European politicians? Definitely.
Definitely not. The US are spying on European politicians: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-nsa-spied-on-merkel-cell-phone-from-berlin-embassy-a-930205.html
If there will be a version without backdoors, the US will have exclusive access.
You giving authorities the benefit of the doubt removes any credibility you have in truth.