https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117537776055163844
There’s a major state sponsored misinformation and smear campaign towards GrapheneOS in the Netherlands and Germany. The misinformation campaign includes unsubstantiated security claims not holding up to scrutiny to scare people away from it. They’re also heavily misrepresenting who uses it overall.
These smear campaigns conflate GrapheneOS with forks and modifications of it sold by shady companies. Those usually include a device management app to remotely manage the devices of their customers as if they’re employees. These are largely not GrapheneOS devices or have preinstalled malware apps.
France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands are becoming increasingly authoritarian surveillance states with an ongoing crackdown against privacy. It’s happening throughout the whole EU and it’s likely both secure devices and end-to-end encryption without backdoors are going to end up outlawed.
There are a bunch of companies based in the EU selling phones with drastically worse privacy and security than an iPhone including Jolla, Volla, Murena and iodé. These products are effectively backdoored by not providing standard privacy and security patches/protections while misleading users.
So the end justifies the means, great argument.
didnt mention any “mean” but wanted to ask you what you think the mean is, because you wrote about that. I also didnt mention any “end”? Just wanted to understand why you think what you said was a bad thing, thats it. I dont even have an opinion on that topic i just found it interesting how you come to your conclusion (because i heard about that opinion also in many non ai topics before and never got it. I have the theory that its something about equality on effort? Idk maybe you can tell me why you see things that way).
I don’t think you understand what ends and means are. It seems to me that you are arguing that the efficiency gains (ends) constitute a justifiable use of AI (means).
I know the expression and didnt talk about any gains (or methods to reach them) of ai in my first comment. Just wanted to know why kiwitb thinks what he/she said is a bad thing. Kiwitb concluded that i think that the gains of ai justifiy the means, which is not was i was talking about at all. So i asked kiwitb what he/she thinks the means are, that kiwi thought i was refering to in her/his comment