Alien-Investor on Nostr: France threatened GrapheneOS with arrest and server seizure — for refusing to build ...
France threatened GrapheneOS with arrest and server seizure — for refusing to build a backdoor.
Response: the entire infrastructure moved from OVH France to Canada and Germany.
The first time a government directly threatened an open-source privacy project with criminal prosecution.
The irony: a backdoor is technically impossible. The security architecture relies on Google's Titan-M2 hardware chip — no software patch can bypass it.
~400,000 active users. As of April 2026.
France tried to kick down a door that doesn't exist.
🛡️ #GrapheneOS #Privacy #OpSec #France #Encryption #Sovereignty
Published at
2026-04-30 13:20:24 CESTEvent JSON
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