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The GrapheneOS developers are giving me concerns about the future of GrapheneOS (midwest.social)

submitted 2 days ago by 12plus1plus12@midwest.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The drama and accusations the GrapheneOS developers are spewing and engaging in are giving me a bad taste in the mouth and make me doubt the OS’s reliability am I the only one?

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[–] paper_moon@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Its all fine until their approach of privacy or security differs with what's best for the project, then there's no reasoning with them to fix it because they're not calm and flexible. Then ya gotta fork it and get everyone to transition to the new fork, and get developers back onboard, etc.

A crazy, but pointed example of something like this could be: the dude could just claim grapheneos going forward will not have networking anymore because thats an attack vector, and at that point the project doesn't even suite anyone's needs to be used as a smartphone anymore. How are you gonna reason with someone like this that, while keeping networking in the project is an attack vector, its necessary to be able to use the project for it's intended use case? You probably aren't

[–] Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Not sure why this completly made up hypothetical scenario has so many upvotes. There is litteraly no evidence of this happening.

Even the opposite is the case, just recently with the preview releases which are opt-in.