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GrapheneOS
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Robert Braxman has published another video spreading blatant misinformation about GrapheneOS in order to promote his highly insecure products and services. In addition to many false technical claims and fabrications about our team, he's falsely claiming the project is dying.
July 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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We have a thread already debunking this recent line of attack on GrapheneOS at bsky.app/profile/grap.... GrapheneOS quickly provided the June security patches, was ported to Android 16 and is working with a major Android OEM. It's not dying and we haven't said or implied it is.
Many companies and individuals are trying to mislead people about the future of GrapheneOS to promote their insecure products and services. GrapheneOS is not going anywhere. We've made it clear we're shipping Android 16 soon and that the supported devices will remain supported.
Braxman presents himself as a privacy and security expert but isn't one. He's a shady businessman selling unsafe snake oil products and services. His content is filled with outright fabrications and is heavily aimed at promoting his products. It misinforms rather than educating.
More privacy and security experts should address Braxman's inaccurate content along with the products and services he sells.
social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/...
Braxman has repeatedly sold people fake end-to-end encryption messaging, etc. The companies working with him are scammers too.
GrapheneOS has only ever posted about Braxman in response to his misinformation about us. In his latest video attacking us, he engages in clear libel towards our team. He pushes fabrications from a libel/stalking site and accuses us of doing what he's openly doing in the video...
Our lead developer was forcibly conscripted into a war and we've been asking for help regularly since then and expressing that the situation was dire. Android 16 making our life harder than expected made it worse. The Android 16 changes weren't really the important part...
Following this, we hired 2 more full time developers and have tried to hire more people. Multiple people stepped up to do part time volunteer work helping with the port to Android 16 and other things. People stepped up to help in other ways. GrapheneOS was not and is not dying.
We shipped the June Android Security Bulletin patches for AOSP on June 2. Pixel and AOSP release was June 10 based on Android 16. We began porting to 16, realized it would be far harder than expected and requested urgent help. We backported Android 16 firmware/drivers to 15 QPR2.
Our initial official production release of Android 16 was made on June 30th after an experimental release the day before which had major issues:
grapheneos.org/releases#202...
Most users already considered that fully functional and very stable. Most early testers were happy with it.
There were no Pixel Update Bulletin security patches for July 2025 so we took an extra day to polish things up further and GrapheneOS based on Android 16 reached our Stable channel today.
Due to requesting and receiving help, we're much better off than we were before Android 16.
Continue thread...
I've watched a few of his videos and I kinda like him, except his tendency to hyperbole and paranoia. But I'm not an expert.
Your post is informative and I appreciate it, as well as your work.
"Brax" is a fish similar to salmon in Swedish. Seems to be a Swedish name.
I have no idea who he is though but I'm about to find out.