@Fritange France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS. They’re conflating us with companies which they’ve previously gone after and taken over their servers. We aren’t vulnerable to being attacked in the same way but we still don’t want accesses to our website/network services being logged or our website being hijacked. France isn’t a safe country for GrapheneOS to operate in anymore and we’re going to be protecting the project and our users by avoiding the country completely now.
From the official GrapheneOS Mastodon account.
It’s incredible how reactionary a lot of tech journalists are.
Is this a new thing? I feel like stuff like user privacy rights used to be pretty widely understood by tech journalists.
consent is being manufactured in real time. we’re to only interact in algorithmically mediated walled gardens and won’t we feel so safe then
I feel like there’s a “generational” divide in tech journalism. The old school were basically bloggers with good writing skills who understood (at least on a layperson level) the technology they wrote about. New tech journalism seems like business journalism by J-school grads whose familiarity with technology is limited to tech company press releases.
Looking at that specific authors blog, it looks like he is approaching cyber security less from a technology and more from a true crime angle. At least in the headlines.