I love that he is implying that GrapheneOS is the criminal OS of choice. /s
That had not even entered my mind before just associating it with privacy. Thanks Linus what a real help pushing that narrative with the title and thumbail.
Tbf, whenever there’s a private tool like graphene, tor, tails, whonix, mullvad, matrix, jabber, pgp, etc?
Yes, criminals will use it, because of course they don’t want to get caught for crimes just as much as we don’t want to be tracked in general (maybe more, because crimes lol).
But also, criminals use roads, trains, busses, the USPS and private mail carriers, normal phones including SMS and calls, facetime, email, they drink water and eat food, on and on.
“Criminals use it” is a fucking stupid reason to ban anything, in fact it’s a good reason we should adopt it too in terms of privacy, because if it works for them doing way worse than I am, then it ought to work just fine for me too. Besides over half of those criminals are just using WHM or whatever is the go to these days, define “criminals.”
In an era of countries pushing things like chat control over and over and grasping at straws to try to ban encryption and pushing verification laws its so helpful for a big channel to spread the impression GrapheneOS is the criminals choice.
I love that he is implying that GrapheneOS is the criminal OS of choice. /s
That had not even entered my mind before just associating it with privacy. Thanks Linus what a real help pushing that narrative with the title and thumbail.
Tbf, whenever there’s a private tool like graphene, tor, tails, whonix, mullvad, matrix, jabber, pgp, etc?
Yes, criminals will use it, because of course they don’t want to get caught for crimes just as much as we don’t want to be tracked in general (maybe more, because crimes lol).
But also, criminals use roads, trains, busses, the USPS and private mail carriers, normal phones including SMS and calls, facetime, email, they drink water and eat food, on and on.
“Criminals use it” is a fucking stupid reason to ban anything, in fact it’s a good reason we should adopt it too in terms of privacy, because if it works for them doing way worse than I am, then it ought to work just fine for me too. Besides over half of those criminals are just using WHM or whatever is the go to these days, define “criminals.”
If you watch the video, they’re citing Spanish officials. It was a big hurrah that went around a couple months ago.
https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixel-3575477/
But yeah, it makes for great clickbait too. You know the GOS guys are foaming at the mouth already for their weekly HARRASSMENT debacle.
In an era of countries pushing things like chat control over and over and grasping at straws to try to ban encryption and pushing verification laws its so helpful for a big channel to spread the impression GrapheneOS is the criminals choice.
Just the type of helpful branding needed.
Agreed