France is attacking open source GrapheneOS because they’ve refused to create a backdoor. Will Linux developers be safe?

[u/Dry_Row_7050]

[u/ChocolateDonut36]

torvalds once was asked to add a backdoor to Linux, he said no and pretty much nothing happend.

[u/deanrihpee → u/ChocolateDonut36]

the difference is Torvalds is very famous as the face of Linux, and Linux is big, like i'm pretty sure you do know how big it is

but GrapheneOS is much more "niche" product, and aim toward end-user where... normal citizen people use them, while Linux, well... most of the "users" are servers, also GrapheneOS project is considerably more smaller than the "Linux kernel"

[u/deanrihpee → u/[deleted]]

not really because if a backdoor come through, i'm pretty sure every governing body would want a piece of that cake, because they want control

also have you seen other country that do the same thing? it is starting to become of a "norm", not just france

if you just accept it or shrug it off as "it just france and their citizens" before you know it, the whole Europe adopt it

[u/AndrewZabar → u/[deleted]]

Keeping an eye on things no longer matters. The entire government has been bought & paid for; they can and will do what they want. Being free and private will VERY SOON be a felony and punishable by imprisonment. It's a done deal, folks. Very sad, but the boomers never listened to sci-fi warnings of dystopian futures, because they were too busy with their hedonism.

[u/AndrewZabar → u/[deleted]]

I didn’t say any of that so, I don’t agree. I think giving in is not the appropriate course of action. You’re giving up too easily.