<![CDATA[Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena.]]>Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. Duval and his organizations have consistently taken a stance against protecting users from exploits. In this video, he once again claims protecting against exploits is for only useful pedophiles and spies.

Translation to English:

> There's the attack surface, on that front we're not security specialists here, so I couldn't answer you precisely, but from the discussions I've had, it seems that everything

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/x_cli/statuses/116356842374340239https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/x_cli/statuses/116356842374340239Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:35:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:33:28 GMT]]>@x_cli

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

@otyugh@pouet.chapril.org @straybun@lgbtqia.space @watchfulcitizen@goingdark.social France's government is making false and unsubstantiated claims about Signal to promote the Olvid app made in France: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/france-officials-use-open-source-alternative-olvid https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2023/12/15/olvid-the-french-government-s-secure-messaging-app-already-under-fire_6346249_19.html France is pushing for encryption backdoors which could be forced into Olvid due to it being based in France but could not be forced into Signal since Signal would simply stop operating in France as we're choosing to do going forward. They're absolutely attacking Signal in addition to GrapheneOS.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.space/users/Andromxda/statuses/116356835485172083https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.space/users/Andromxda/statuses/116356835485172083Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:33:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:15:22 GMT]]>@blueluma @GrapheneOS Duval's statement at 5:07:

“We don't have a hardened security approach, we're not developing a phone so that pedophiles (word censored in the video) can evade justice.

So there aren't any advanced features, like checking if the memory is corrupted, etc, really hardened features that might be useful for presidents, secret agents, and so on...”

The reference to a hardened phone intended for pedophiles is a direct reference to GrapheneOS, the only hardened mobile operating system available, as well as to phones compatible with the project and any other projects or devices that might adopt the same approach. These verbal statements follow a long series of false claims about GrapheneOS on social media.

He then states that this hardening may prove effective, but continues with the fallacious logic that it is useful only for high-value, targeted individuals or criminals, and that lambda people would never need it and would have no reason to use enhanced security to protect their data. He claims that GrapheneOS is for a minority and that /e/OS is for everyone.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Xtreix/statuses/116356764298456420https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Xtreix/statuses/116356764298456420Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:15:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:11:16 GMT]]>@jsa I don’t know. They literally say “We don’t develop a phone for pedophiles to evade justice.” (“[…] on développe pas un téléphone pour les pédo(bip) pour qu'ils puissent échapper à la justice.”) Pedocriminals seem to be the main example they chose. They could’ve focused on other groups and instead mention secret services and the like. @cutesobri @GrapheneOS

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Fnordinger/statuses/116356748176464779https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Fnordinger/statuses/116356748176464779Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:11:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:10:19 GMT]]>@lispi314
Have a look at uBlockOrigin's "Hard mode":
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode
Here scripts, frames, CSS and images are blocked by default.
@GrapheneOS @tedstechtips

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/schm43cky/statuses/116356744476427674https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://metalhead.club/users/schm43cky/statuses/116356744476427674Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:10:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:47:25 GMT]]>@GrapheneOS lmao the "i HaVE noThINg To HIde" crowd, maybe he should make all of his emails and texts public and live stream his home security cams, I mean what is he trying to hide ? is he a PDF?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/hariprakashj/statuses/116356654404662978https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/hariprakashj/statuses/116356654404662978Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:47:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:41:39 GMT]]>@mast0d0nphan @GrapheneOS is this real? Do you know when?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/luckychronic/statuses/116356631692377553https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/luckychronic/statuses/116356631692377553Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:41:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:17:12 GMT]]>@cutesobri @GrapheneOS What emerge from such reactions of @GrapheneOS is suspicion on their means and goals. Making short answers in social medias with a link to an up to date page collecting every evidence and pointing on every original sources of such alleged comportments would be clearly less misinterpretable and misleading. I understand that's a meticulous work far from developping a secure os, but I ear here and there of @GrapheneOS, and never in terms of trust.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/jsa/statuses/116356535601106281https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/jsa/statuses/116356535601106281Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:17:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:58:17 GMT]]>@cutesobri @GrapheneOS No the translation is clearly not accurate. What G.D. says in french is the /e/ fundation builds an os you could not trust to hide from heavy investigations. In the mainlines, if you're pedocriminal, spy, executive, whatever, their operating system is not build for, it is (just) built to reduce everyday footprint in daily usage.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/jsa/statuses/116356461230782679https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/jsa/statuses/116356461230782679Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:58:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:55:20 GMT]]>@GrapheneOS
To be fair, Signal lies about their actual security, particularly regarding metadata protection.

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Metadata Protection in Instant Messaging Applications: a Review

Twelve years after the public specification of the Signal protocol, almost all instant messaging protocols have embraced the ratchet construct, granting perfect forward secrecy and post-compromise security. Whatsapp, Signal, OMEMO-based applications, Olm and Megolm-based applications, or SimpleX ...

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Olvid, a French IM, arguably offers better privacy than Signal, by design. But they are French, so I don't trust them either for the reasons you listed in this thread.

@simplex is way ahead of Signal and Olvid, privacy/security-wise.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/x_cli/statuses/116356449594010557https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/x_cli/statuses/116356449594010557Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:55:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:53:53 GMT]]>@GrapheneOS @blueluma @Xtreix I also think it's not the best to directly attack them and others. Stating that GOS is better than others and how smooth it works can be presented in a better way. I'm not a PR specialist but disputing false claims maybe can be done in a better way without "sounding desperate". Sry not native English and therefore don't finding the right words.
GOS is strong and works nice and I I'm so excited about the Motorola cooperation. Keep on with this awesome work.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/SomeAnoTooter/statuses/116356443887908112https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/SomeAnoTooter/statuses/116356443887908112Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:53:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:29:48 GMT]]>@Camille @GrapheneOS @gael À priori c'est pas le voleur classique qui veut revendre ton téléphone qui va essayer de le hacker, mais bon, si la porte est ouverte honnêtement on ne sait jamais. (Et c'est ça qui fait peur, de ne pas savoir concrètement à quel point c'est faisable, donc pour moi c'est intuitif de vouloir un téléphone sécurisé)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mttn/statuses/116356349172021847https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mttn/statuses/116356349172021847Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:29:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:27:00 GMT]]>@Camille @GrapheneOS @gael Je ne m'y connais pas assez pour pouvoir te dire que n'importe quelle personne pourra entrer dans ton téléphone, mais à coup sûr les autorités peuvent rentrer facilement dedans vu que c'est ce que Gaël semble impliquer.
Si les autorités peuvent pour des suspicions banales (et pas une suspicion genre espionnage d'état à haut niveau), je ne vois pas pourquoi quelqu'un de très expérimenté ne pourrait pas non plus.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mttn/statuses/116356338172323569https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mttn/statuses/116356338172323569Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:27:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:26:56 GMT]]>@Camille @GrapheneOS @gael
Bah le truc c'est que les téléphones Android n'ont jamais été trop sécurisés jusqu'à il y a quelques années. (En tout cas à ma connaissance les iPhones étaient les seuls qui étaient vraiment protégés)
Maintenant on a Graphene avec des paramètres de protection vraiment incroyables, et certains autres téléphones genre le Google Pixel avec l'OS stock est apparemment assez sécurisé aussi.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mttn/statuses/116356337909637567https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/mttn/statuses/116356337909637567Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:26:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:00:04 GMT]]>@GrapheneOS
Well, I certainly find GraphineOS easy to use, and use it for everyday, because i value privacy and understand security.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/Retreival9096/statuses/116355760396856614https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/Retreival9096/statuses/116355760396856614Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:00:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:49:56 GMT]]>@HybridStaticAnimate @codebam @GrapheneOS

That it must be installed by the user doesn't make it different.

IMHO the two app stores included in GrapheneOS are not sufficient for the vast majority of users.

If "every" user needs to install it to have a usable phone, it really is part of the attack surface.
(And yes, I'm aware the Play services are sandboxed on GrapheneOS which improves privacy and security)

It's a bit like delivering a computer without network functionality because it reduces the attack surface, and then blaming the user if they install network drivers.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/realn2s/statuses/116355720582869245https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/realn2s/statuses/116355720582869245Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:49:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:51:19 GMT]]>@Xtreix @GrapheneOS I've only watched the short section of the videos from the post, do you have a source of the complete video so I could watch it and see the direct attack to GrapheneOS in it as you mention 👀

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/blueluma/statuses/116355018220737547https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/blueluma/statuses/116355018220737547Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:51:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:48:26 GMT]]>@Xtreix @GrapheneOS this post does not respond to a direct attack as far as I know

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/blueluma/statuses/116355006857686507https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/blueluma/statuses/116355006857686507Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:48:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:35:58 GMT]]>@cutesobri We used a manual translation for the quote we included in this thread but automatic translation is good enough for the articles. There are a only a few specific places in the content where we got a native French speaker to help out with making sure we were getting the full nuance of it including the parts with the not so subtle threats.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://grapheneos.social/users/GrapheneOS/statuses/116354721948013988https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://grapheneos.social/users/GrapheneOS/statuses/116354721948013988Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:35:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:49:03 GMT]]>@GrapheneOS

Thank you.

Stupid articles...

Keep up the good work! ✊

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116201530099818872/statuses/116354537460958973https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116201530099818872/statuses/116354537460958973Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:49:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:40:52 GMT]]>@GrapheneOS

"And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." - Nicholas Klein, trade union attorney (1918) [Often attributed to Schopenhauer 1819, or Gandhi 1920]

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/mj/statuses/116354505248100409https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/mj/statuses/116354505248100409Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:40:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:23:34 GMT]]>@GrapheneOS And this thing is old, for example, back when the first versions of Firefox were released, France had demanded versions of Firefox with significantly reduced security to allow law enforcement agencies to take remote control of it. I didn’t know about it at the time; I was too young, but I know it happened.

During the gradual transition to encrypting the web, France was reluctant and initially wanted to limit encryption to states websites and banks.

Surveillance by the French government has taken an even more aggressive turn since 2015, following the Charlie Hebdo attacks.

The GDPR has so far proven ineffective, and it is mainly due to the censorship and decisions of the Constitutional Council and the Court of Justice of the European Union that the French government is prevented from going further than it would like, but every year, it tries to circumvent these decisions.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Xtreix/statuses/116354437227382790https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Xtreix/statuses/116354437227382790Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:23:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:20:13 GMT]]>@claude_champagne Here's a paywall bypass for the 2 paywalled articles above:

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The third one doesn't have a paywall and there are many more similar articles across other sites. We didn't want to link the ones where our team was personally targeted by a tech news site heavily misrepresenting our statements and adding up the total amount of tweets we posted over a week mainly as replies to questions to misrepresent as being on our main timeline.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://grapheneos.social/users/GrapheneOS/statuses/116354424059892305https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://grapheneos.social/users/GrapheneOS/statuses/116354424059892305Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:20:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. on Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:18:45 GMT]]>Here's a paywall bypass for the 2 paywalled articles above:

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These are among the most egregious cases of France's corporate and state media presenting highly inaccurate state smearing of GrapheneOS as fact but there's much more.

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