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No idea why these articles always try and reference a criminal case to attempt to make us look bad and responsible, when the example is always someone caught red handed, arrested and being charged. We also can't know who any users are because it's an open source project anyone can change the code and run their own version of... Shocking! Doesn't sound like we are enabling any crime to me if theyre being caught. Maybe they should ask the same questions to the teams of Android, LLVM or Linux who make most of the code.

The moment police IT specialists tried to extract data from it, the device mysteriously reset itself.

There is no feature that just 'mysteriously' resets itself. The only feature is the duress password, which is an overt and well documented feature. This is not characteristic of GrapheneOS. If there is an app doing this, ANY Android device can do it.

“When this system is present on a mobile phone, it is a clear indicator of technical sophistication and an intent to conceal,”

Or that they are a important or at-risk individual with additional security needs other commercial off the shelf device and operating system setups aren't providing? Why do they make malicious assumptions?

Is enabling Lockdown Mode on your iPhone also an intent to conceal?

One distinctive feature of GrapheneOS: you can get it both on the darknet and on mainstream websites. Police have also detected specialized forums, darknet chat rooms, and unlisted YouTube channels that promote it.

Anyone getting GrapheneOS from "unlisted YouTube channels" and the "darknet" lacks reading comprehension. Whatever these are, they aren't by us and would be an infringement on our trademarks. We have a public chat bridged to many mainstream platforms and a surface web site... Not to mention we ban anybody suspected of being involved in anything universally considered criminal activity.

Note they kept talking about us like we are a business selling a product. We aren't a business and aren't selling anything.

The software can erase all data on the phone by displaying, for example, a fake Snapchat screen when a cyber-investigator tries to access its memory or decrypt it.

Not even a GrapheneOS feature. Completely made up attribution. If there's an app doing this, then again, any Android device applies.