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They should consider making their primary site a .onion and then have clear-web portals in many countries that serve as a secondary class site or cache. The physical location of the primary site should be unknown.
"Majority of Americans block ads"

https://allaboutcookies.org/ad-blocker-adoption

"Majority of Americans now use ad blockers"

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/america_ad_blocker/

Was there "concrete evidence" that "the majority of Europeans wanted" the rights granted to them under the GDPR

If we examine each of the rights that the public possesses, perhaps many of them would be unfamiliar or unknown to a majority of the public

Is it reasonable to imply that for each and every one of those rights there is "concrete evidence" that "a majority of the public" wants them, even when they are not familiar with them or do not know of their existence

I understand the concerns and anger of GrapheneOS's leadership, but the hyper-escalation tactic doesn't do what they hope:

First, it sends a message of inexperience in business, negotiation, and conflict resolution: 'I'm going to take my ball and leave' - it looks like an emotional overreaction without strategic thinking. These days you sometimes see powerful parties making similar threats - e.g., Uber threatening to leave certain markets. But those people have significant power and their tactic is really to demonstrate that in order to shift their negotiating position; usually they don't actually decamp, and GrapheneOS has relatively little power so that tactic doesn't apply.

As importantly, it sends the message that GrapheneOS can be pushed around and manipulated: A slight hint of a threat and they flee. Others will take note, and many will think the same of other FOSS projects, large and small - they are easily intimidated and dismissed.

Another reason people don't use these tactics is that they have other important interests besides the one under immediate threat. A requirement of anyone with significant investments that can't be easily abandoned - which is everyone doing anything of value - is to navigate in a way that upholds all those interests. You don't burn down the house to kill a rat. It can be hard and requires careful, deliberate thought and strategy.

One unmentioned interest that might appeal to GrapheneOS's leadership is the freedoms of people in France to create FOSS, and to individual privacy and security.

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For what it's worth, Micay has a long history of accusing other people of slandering the project without providing any evidence or rebuttals.

When asked for details, he gets defensive and accusatory, then creates multiple sockpuppet accounts to argue the same points over and over.

This looks hugely blown out of proportion. The project founder has a well documented history of what I would consider a persecution complex. Once again he has provided no substantial evidence. The only thing they provided are some, admittedly borderline libelous, news articles. Unless they provide some more concrete information about these supposed attempts of getting a backdoor installed into the system, I will consider this as just another day of GrapheneOS drama.
When you are in this business it's better to be safe than Pavel Durov.
I did a deep dive and Daniel Micay stepped down as lead dev back in 2023 FYI.
Canada is liberal and a better option for hosting privacy projects than EU.

Every few months a bad proposal comes out of somewhere in EU. The details of this case don’t matter, the tendency is big government control.

The Canadian parliament can vote laws that break/infringe upon most of our charter rights with a simple majority, using the non-withstanding clause. The Quebec government has already used it and is signaling that it will use that clause even more often.

Again, that requires a simple parliament majority and courts aren't allowed to really do anything about a law once that clause is invoked. That makes for one of the worst places to be in for something like grapheneOS in the long term. You're just a single election away from a PM like Legault deciding that encryption is against "Canadian values" or something.

(They wouldn't even need that to restrict encryption, but it still makes us unique in the west since it's just a "routine" clause that can be invoked to suspend almost every possible legal challenge against a law outside of any emergency situation or extraordinary circumstance, and is used almost on a yearly basis nowadays )

Here is the problem France and Europe need to be somehow attractive in the world today:

- Energy prices -> nope

- Science and technology -> not anymore plus the brain drain is accelerating

- Business environment and competitive taxes -> nope

Europe still had good living environment, safety, fair privacy and rule of law. But western Europe seems to be dedicated to destroy this too. In the meanwhile a lot of countries elsewhere are progressing rapidly in those domains.

wondering how this will affect veracrypt. which is mostly developed by a French developer.
Is anyone working on a low orbit Datacenter already?
The title should be, "GrapheneOS jumps from frying pan to fire".
this is all fluff and noise, as we are on the threshold of space based servers, complying with the laws of convienient country next, owned by company overthere, leased to a "guy in taiwan", maybe
It's kinda ironic that they posted this on X. If they really care about privacy and freedom, why are they still active on X, a platform run by an insane person?
I'd like to understand the facts: What has government in France actually done in regard to GOS? All I've seen is one comment from one prosecutor, quoted in a news article, though certainly I could have missed much more:

Has any government agency or representative in France said anything else? Taken any actions? Contacted GOS directly?

What do we think about cryptpad.fr?
” In Canada and the US, refusing to provide a PIN/password is protected as part of the right to avoid incriminating yourself. In France, they've criminalized this part of the right to remain silent.”