I don’t know why this obvious disinformation has a 95% upvote ratio, but it’s a specific fork made by a guy who presumably sells (mainly) to criminals and the police having found a backdoor into that fork. Has nothing to do with any smear campaign against the entire OS.
Check your facts people!
My thoughts exactly. There’s no real article behind that ad.nl link. Then there’s this loosely related link to the GOS mastodon post. And then there’s the broad claim in the title, which, unless OP can provide proper evidence, is entirely made-up bullshit. I use downvotes very sparingly here on Lemmy, but this disinformation piece deserves all the red it gets.
Ad.nl is also a shit source anyway. Tabloid fearmongering.
It sure did look like that from the layout, but I thought it wise to hold back judgement on the source, given that I only had Firefox’ auto-translation, which can be very rough.
Let me just put it this way: the guys in the GrapheneOS thread over on tweakers.nl spent exactly
fourthree comments on it, including one laughing at how bad AD is, after which they proceeded to resume their discussion about their preferred banking app.
I’ve never really considered grapheneos. But if this many governments hate it, it’s probably pretty good.
I don’t understand what legal grounds they have to seize the phones. Just installing a different rom shouldn’t be enough.
That depends whether the govt considers if you own your phone or not. In the latter case, they’d see it as breaking the law. Welcome to the renter culture worldwide
This campaign is mainly focussed on drugs related crime syndicates, having a graphene phone is seen as criminating evidence. Dutch police has a very competent cybercrime unit, a few years back they cracked a secure “pgp phone” network which exposed multiple drug syndicates and led to a large amount of convictions.
That said, stopping crime is always used as an excuses for states to crack down on privacy and other human rights. Its a slippery slope.
