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by other8026 5mo ago
> Hopefully the HN mods will unflag the astroturfing campaign done by GrapheneOS here to allow a good healthy discussion. A quick Google search shows that you've been attacking Daniel for a long time using this account. You complain
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by other8026 5mo ago
All the stuff about members of our team not being stable is ridiculous and only works in favor of people or organizations that don't like us or want to damage GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS has multiple people helping out. Many developers as w
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by other8026 5mo ago
Just read the article again and I'd suggest also reading responses we sent to fact checkers (many answers didn't even show up in the article). James' side of the story is riddled with lies. So, if you read the article with th
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by other8026 1y ago
> The community is unnecessarily toxic from what I've seen I'm a GrapheneOS community moderator and I would disagree with this take. If people have issues with the community and feel that they can't ask "why" the
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by other8026 1y ago
As someone else pointed out, it's not just the comment. There's context you're either ignoring because it's inconvenient for you, or you don't know because you couldn't be bothered to learn more about it. The v
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by other8026 1y ago
The basic thing is that the developer had been swatted multiple times right before that video. Swatted by a fan of the YouTubers who made the video that Louis commented on. But the targeted update thing isn't even possible on GrapheneO
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by other8026 1y ago
I'm one of GrapheneOS's moderators and just saw this. What I see here is someone who wants a feature, a feature that many people want, but it hasn't been added for reasons listed in the GrapheneOS issue tracker. No one was ru
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by other8026 1y ago
Pixels are the only devices that are out right now that meet the project's requirements. The project is in talks with a major OEM to have some of their devices meet GrapheneOS's requirements and have official support for GrapheneO
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by other8026 1y ago
> GrapheneOS also enables security features when compiling the OS that have a performance impact but mitigate security risks. They end up with a slower phone with less battery life that's protected better against extremely uncommon
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by other8026 1y ago
> The GOS could snoop on their users and turn into malware only if it figures out that this is Rossmann's phone. Well, yes, but not really. What you're saying could be true if the OS wasn't open source. It's not some
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by other8026 1y ago
>> It's objectively clear though, that this is a very low quality video full of baseless speculation, and severely lacking any technical understanding and knowledge. >"Baseless" could not be further away from the tru
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by other8026 1y ago
> mentally unstable It's not appropriate for you to be saying these things. > Stuxnet only targeted specific Iranian systems, a needle in a hay stack, was spread did not harm random devices across the globe, and stayed mostly und
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by other8026 1y ago
There are a couple of comments in response to my own saying basically the same thing, so I'll do the same... Rossmann shouldn't be excused for making his harassment video about Daniel because he doesn't understand how things
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by other8026 1y ago
There are a couple of comments in response to my own saying basically the same thing, so I'll do the same... Rossmann shouldn't be excused for making his harassment video about Daniel because he doesn't understand how things
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by other8026 1y ago
Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I meant they get all that on the stock OS, but didn't make that clear.
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by other8026 1y ago
Did you look at the links? > Fuzion24 / platform_manifest Created 10 years ago Updated 10 years ago
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by other8026 1y ago
> baking telemetry into the hardware (or at least the kind of telemetry that I assume Google is interested in) seems like skipping a few levels of abstraction, and thus more trouble than it's worth. This isn't really a practica
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by other8026 1y ago
> You claim you know who did it. No. Nobody claimed to know the actual identity of the person. > Like the attacks he hallucinates from project They're not hallucinations. > I am confident in seeing signs of a mental disorder t
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by other8026 1y ago
> On the other hand, it only increases the perception that he is could enact significant harm if he ever comes after you. But that would be incorrect. It's not possible for anyone from the GrapheneOS project to target a GrapheneOS u
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by other8026 1y ago
> I do provide sources. You provided exactly 0 sources in all of the comments I've seen posted by you so far. > Showing his true colors = not accepting that there is an evil conspiracy and asking for proof. "Evil conspiracy&
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by other8026 1y ago
Wow. Reading and responding to your comments in this thread, I can see you are very motivated to trash GrapheneOS and its founder. > Well, he can do everything to your phone, software and data by pushing software updates. Other developer
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by other8026 1y ago
> Rossmann's data or himself could be targeted through malicious code pushed via an update, for example. While GOS is opensource and malicious code or exploits could be detected by the community, he himself did not have confidence t
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by other8026 1y ago
> after his mental illness became clear. Here you are again in yet another comment repeating these baseless claims about mental illness. > think about attack scenarios that could occur when the main developer of your OS is not trustwo
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by other8026 1y ago
> Rossmann himself seemed to have stopped using it as his main device because of fear of retaliation given that the GOS devs could potentially target him. But he didn't. It's clear in his later videos that he was still using Gr
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by other8026 1y ago
There's way much more to it than what you said here. > extremely hostile and threatened Rossman At the time, he was very upset. You know, because he was swatted multiple times. Of course he was upset when Rossmann showed his true co
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by other8026 1y ago
The swatting attacks are public record, and can be confirmed through Toronto police records. > another hallucination by the Graphene developer I'm going to assume that by you saying "another" you mean that there were hallu
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by other8026 1y ago
Absolutely. You can basically get almost the same experience as you would on a stock OS device, but with much better privacy. On the stock OS, Google apps get privileged access, so they can still access photos and your camera and all that,
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by other8026 1y ago
> We're in communication with him and he has been diverted away from combat. https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1933311869122720069
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by other8026 1y ago
That's not at all correct. Members of GrapheneOS readily admit when there are things that can be improved, but will call out misinformation when needed. The fact that you're bringing up the Rossmann video after saying that is very
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by other8026 1y ago
Isn't it strange how graphenecheck, draftendirekt, and dontleakkeys were all made less than 6 hours ago and are the only three participating in this discussion? Anyway... The response to Braxman was after he posted a video calling Grap

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