If you use my open source code, the least you can do is to stop supporting a sociopath doing everything he can to destroy my life and my work. I've had a couple incredibly rough years because of this and it's escalating rather than ending thanks to people enabling him to do it.
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I'll being doing a crowdfunding campaign for legal fees, but that's going to be a long process. No amount of money that I can erase will stop the damage being done with misinformation and other attacks on myself and GrapheneOS. I don't know what to do about people duped by them.
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They've been sitting in the Telegram for 2 years spreading misinformation and fraudulent claims about myself and GrapheneOS. It's disgusting looking through the logs and seeing what they and other people have been saying. I can't understand how people fall for it.
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I really can't process how people can support a scammer ripping off an open source privacy/security project by forking the legacy code, falsely claiming to own it, poorly porting/maintaining it and adding DRM/tracking. They don't do any actual privacy/security work of their own.
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People have the choice between a proprietary fork of the legacy code with DRM/tracking or the original open source project which is far more advanced than what they ripped off and messed up. Somehow some people choose the proprietary fork by the scam artist. Makes no sense to me.
The project would be in a far better place today if it hadn't been betrayed and completely screwed over by the company that was supposed to be sponsoring it. It has lost years of progress and had hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen along with valuable partnerships ruined.
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It really sucks that this isn't just painful history but an escalating misinformation war against the project along with a totally bogus lawsuit and other ways of using government institutions as a way to cause harm through abusing them: false copyright claims, tax filings, etc.
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