Bastien

Global #UX & #Innovation Lead @Nestle. Tweets are my own.

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

Here's another French journalist participating in fearmongering about GrapheneOS. That article is not measured. It provided a platform to make both unsubstantiated and provably false claims about GrapheneOS while providing no opportunity to see and respond to those claims.

https://t.co/gGEiBwAbZt

The claims the article platforms are conflating closed source products from European companies infringing on our copyright and trademarks with GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS doesn't have the features they claim it does, isn't distributed in the ways they claim and they don't understand open source software.

GrapheneOS is obtained from https://t.co/21l8TYXrws and https://t.co/6FssqXFT1L. There are a bunch of legitimate companies in Europe selling devices with real GrapheneOS including NitroKey. We aren't partnered with those companies and don't get funding from it but there's nothing shady about it.

Products using operating systems partially based on our code are not GrapheneOS. There's no such thing as a fake Snapchat app wiping the device in GrapheneOS. It has no remote management or remote wiping built into it. It does not have a subscription fee / licensing system built into it either.

Vast majority of the code for those products comes from elsewhere: Android Open Source Project, Linux kernel, Chromium, LLVM and other projects. Of course the non-profit open source project writing a small portion of the code being used by those companies being targeted rather than IBM, Google, etc.

Both Android and iOS try to defend users from the same attack vectors we do. We developed far better protections against exploits which we release as open source code. Open source means anyone can freely use it for any purpose, exactly like the Android Open Source Project used by GrapheneOS itself.

Open source is why we can build GrapheneOS based on the Android Open Source Project. It doesn't make Linus Torvalds, IBM, Google, etc. responsible for what we do. Similarly, others can make their own software based on GrapheneOS. A fork of GrapheneOS contains a small portion of code written by us.

France supposedly has a right to reply which we intend to exercise to respond at length to these articles containing libel from the French state.

We're going to be ending the small amount of operations we have in France as we don't feel the country is safe for open source privacy projects anymore.

GrapheneOS doesn't host services storing sensitive user data. We have signature verification and downgrade protection for updates to the OS, apps and app store metadata. We're going move our website and discussion server away from OVH. Our update mirrors and authoritative DNS are already elsewhere.

Our discussion forum, Matrix, Mastodon, etc. in OVH Bearharnois can be moved to local or colocated servers in Toronto instead. We can use Netcup (owned by Anexia, both German) as one of the main providers for website/network service instances. The majority of our servers are already not on OVH.

We won't travel to France including avoiding conferences and will avoid having people working in the country too. A simple heuristic for the EU is avoiding countries supporting Chat Control. We genuinely believe we cannot safely operate in France anymore as an open source project privacy project.

Our pinned post on this platform shows a great example of why they're actually upset with us:

https://t.co/aJFYRQqtZG

It almost makes us willing to contribute to AOSP again to try to wipe out their ability to exploit a subset of unon-GrapheneOS Android devices too. Google is welcome to reach out.

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

Please read this thread and the linked articles:

https://t.co/WPGi9Useha

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

@bitcoincoreorg Thanks folks for forcing a default behavior change without accounting for the node's community opposition. Now successfully moved my node(s) to @BitcoinKnots

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

Hope to see you there Fam!

[DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 @DrupalConEur]

We’re excited to welcome Olga Tsiamliak and Bastien Chanot as featured speakers in the AGENCY & BUSINESS track at #DrupalConVienna 2025!

On 14 October, they’ll present “Nestlé Nutrition Scalable Multibrand Design System on Drupal”.

👉 https://t.co/B8VjfSBfPf

#DrupalConEur

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

Come on Europe, including Germany must be the guardian of privacy, itself the pre-requisite of free speech. Stop pushing techno-fascist agendas.

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

📣 Germany is close to reversing its principled opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private —& Signal—in the EU.

Time is short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how harmful, counterproductive, and self-sabotaging their reversal would be.

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

@JJCR1989 @Ashcryptoreal Dial up is no protocol. Closer to TCP/IP. Anything else can happen on layer 2.

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

@AlertesInfos Donc il était aware ?

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

Not taking sides—just a geopolitical what-if I’ve been chewing on.
Curious if others have examples where law placed land ownership beyond the reach of both state and foreign power. 3/3

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

What if Greenland was to legally share all its land among its citizens—no central state ownership, just collective title?
Would foreign military action then violate not just sovereignty, but personal and communal property rights? 🌍🤔 1/3

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

Bolivia’s TCOs, Mexico’s ejidos, Namibia’s communal lands—real legal frameworks where land is held by people, not governments.
In a world like that… who really has the power to cede, occupy, or defend territory? 2/3

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

@TakeTheRedPil @doubledeckerpot @historyinmemes 0 mentions of the possiblendeep hélicoïdal struture in this paper. Where's the source of these supposed new findings ?

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

@Marcbxl @Thinker_View Go reindisrrialiser

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

Et ne me lancez pas sur la confusion entre l’opposition du terme « virtuel » au « réel » au lieu de se référer au « numérique », ayant transformé depuis bientôt 40 ans notre réalité.

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

Laisser publier une tribune confondant Bitcoin et « Cryptoactifs » fait apparaître @LesEchos comme un des médias « dinosaure d'une époque révolue ».

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

@ReedPorter8 @RhysSullivan Desperation

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

@ZeroStateReflex Heartbreaking

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

Après un an en Suisse, je découvre encore des surprises intéressantes…
Et toi, c’était quoi ta dernière boulette ?

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

Vous voulez rire ?
Ce matin, j’ai fait une belle boulette. J’avais prévu une session sport suivie d’une douche au boulot…

[Bastien @bastienchanot]

Quelque chose cloche. Le “dentifrice” est pâteux, ça colle. Je regarde de plus près et là… horreur : je suis en train de me brosser les dents avec de la colle à dentier !