Copperhead is continuing to run a misinformation campaign against GrapheneOS along with attacking it in other ways. They're having success at tricking and scamming both individuals and companies to get substantial amounts of money which then goes towards further attacks GrapheneOS and stealing more of our work. They've gradually been rewriting history and have come up with an evolving story where they fraudulently claim authorship / ownership over the project. They've tried to erase their failed attempt to take over an independent open source project they were supposed to be sponsoring / supporting. They've stolen an enormous amount of money and research / development work from us.
We need the community to help with countering their misinformation campaign, including reaching out to people and companies that have been duped. If you're interested in helping with this, get in touch with me on IRC (strcat on irc.freenode.net) or Matrix (@strcat:matrix.org). The community needs to substantially step up and start helping with this on a regular basis. We need people spreading the word about what they're doing and countering their daily attacks on GrapheneOS and GrapheneOS contributors. There's ongoing damage being done to the project by the fraud being perpetrated by James Donaldson and Copperhead Limited. They're trying to steal credit for the authorship and ownership of the work to enrich themselves from it, all while trying to destroy the project they continue to leech from.
People often ask how they can contribute without technical skills and this is how. Reach out to individuals and organizations supporting this scam and get the truth to them. The money being illegitimately vacuumed up by these people is directed towards causing harm to us. The more successful they are with their scam, the more damage they're able to do. It's very important for the community to start taking this seriously. It's ridiculous that they've been able to go on for so long thanks to apathy and inaction. The privacy and security industry is full of these scam artists but these ones are particularly bad. James Donaldson is causing enormous damage to open source privacy and security work. He's a sociopath with no mortal compass and he's never going to be convinced to stop what he's doing. Instead, we need to counter the damaging misinformation campaign with facts by reaching out to the people duped by people. Cutting off their illegitimate revenue based on the theft / fraud they're committing protects others from being harassed, intimidated or duped by them. Please start taking action.
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