Lead Developer Leaves GrapheneOS Due to Harassment Including Swatting
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg
Yikes. Hope this Daniel guy can get some help and find some peace, poor dude seems incredibly unstable. :(
Here's the opposite perspective by someone not themselves part of the drama:
Suggesting that this person may indeed be socially insecure but also actually being actively targeted and physically at risk. So it may be the case you just shared two gaslighting videos.
I wouldn't be surprised if anybody who bothers to make a 20 minute video showing screenshots of conversations is mentally unhinged enough to call a swat team on other people.
So i wouldn't recommend interacting with this community at all.
"Yeah, that move just seems like a dramatic line in a script. If you don't want to know what the personality is of a person, then don't interact with them. Is he going to shut down his computer shop because he doesn't like Tim Cook? Honestly, with kindness and respect, I think cause Louiss is on the spectrum he doesn't know how to interact with another autistic person with empathy."
This whole thing seems like a shit show, I've worked around open source for the better part of 15 years, this might be the most toxic thing I've seen yet. Seems good this Daniel Micay guy is stepping back from the project, I hope he can get some help and the project can flourish.
My point was more that unless someone credible wants to spend days investigating we will never know the truth here, except for the obvious truth staring us in the face: stay away from _all_ _these_ _people.
+1
It's difficult to even neutrally mention GrapheneOS / CalyxOS / DivestOS on reddit without getting an extremely angry response by one of the same 5-6 accounts who apparently spend all their time accusing each other of nebulous misdeeds. Ignoring them is by far the best response.
FWIW I was already a user of LineageOS and custom ROMs for years, and did move to GrapheneOS recently, but more for usability reasons than privacy/security ones. The WebUSB installer and OTA updates for Graphene are way more professional than downloading new releases off a guy on xda-developers and having to do a clean install (= wipe the phone) after major upgrades.
With that said, and with my tongue firmly in cheek, someone who thinks (rightly or wrongly) that the world is full of malicious people eager to mess with them might be exactly the psychological profile you want in the developer of a privacy-focused OS :)
Daniel created a great project, then did everything to make people not use it. Any criticism, harassment You don't believe his story with copperhead?, Harassment. And so on. You can already see his community fans with new accounts on HN saying that Louis conspired against Daniel, he didn't need to do anything , Daniel did this to himself.
For a background on this, have a look in louis's latest video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
Edit: To be clear, I don't fucking care about anything "privacy". I just want an exploit/forensics-hardened phone.