Yesterday, an interview was published with James Donaldson presenting a clearly false narrative about what happened with CopperheadOS. The interview slanders myself and GrapheneOS. The interviewer didn't challenge his claims and made no attempt to contact myself or GrapheneOS.
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The interview provided a platform for a scammer to promote their snake oil and further line their pockets co-opting the work and reputation of an open source project they played no part in developing. This would be over if not for people enabling James to continue causing harm.
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It may seem this was a crisis which happened over a year ago and is now just a historical issue. That's not the case. There are daily attacks on the project and myself from James. He's still fully invested into causing damage and profiting from the confusion / misinformation.
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I greatly appreciate help spreading information about what actually happened:
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You can look back at what was published at the time. Some is archived at github.com/yegortimoshenk. James purged a lot of this via the Twitter account takeover, false DMCAs, etc.
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GrapheneOS is the continuation of the project formerly known as CopperheadOS. GrapheneOS is open source and is in the process of being properly revived and moved forward.
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For the most part, people closely following the project at the time weren't tricked by James. He was only able to trick a few people that he was in close contact with and able to manipulate over time. Unfortunately, most didn't closely follow it and are easy victims for scamming.
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