Please listen to this podcast about ANOM:
https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/146/
The FBI ran a sting operation in Europe where they created their own ‘secure’ phone and messaging platform. Their OS used portions of our code and was heavily marketed as being GrapheneOS or based on GrapheneOS.
Through this operation, the FBI provided criminals in Europe with a communication network they heavily trusted. It gave them much more confidence to coordinate and commit crimes. The vast majority of this crime was ignored for years to avoid exposing ANOM as being a honey pot.
In cooperation with many European governments, the FBI heavily encouraged and facilitated organized crime in Europe. US and European governments facilitated drug trafficking, human trafficking, murders, rape, kidnapping and much more for years while claiming it was GrapheneOS.
It’s an outrageous infringement on the GrapheneOS copyright and trademarks. US and European governments did massive harm to the GrapheneOS project through doing this. They placed us in very real danger of violence from organized crime by selling fake GrapheneOS devices to them.
GrapheneOS building technology to protect privacy and security is completely legal. Our work is strongly protected by Canadian, European and American laws. A minuscule portion of our userbase are criminals and the claims being made by the French government about that are lies.
It’s very likely a lot of the crime facilitated by ANOM wouldn’t have happened without these governments providing criminals with a communications network they believed was completely secure. The way they wrapped it up doesn’t absolve them of what they facilitated for years.
France’s government and law enforcement wants you to believe GrapheneOS and Signal are somehow responsible for crime. French law enforcement operates with impunity and has extraordinarily levels of corruption and criminal behavior. They’re the ones committing and enabling crime.
You claim “was funded” or “was founded”? Because funded means just that they sent some money. Could be to appear more legit or whatever the reason.
Massively funded
It’s a claim you can verify on Wikipedia for example
I’ve tried just now, and I can’t confirm any of your claims. Neither about “massively funded”, nor about being funded at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Asia (no mentions of being funded by CIA, no mentions of Signal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Foundation (no mentions of CIA, no mentions of Radio Free Asia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software) (no mentions of CIA, no mentions of Radio Free Asia)
Radio Free Asia and other programs of Radio Liberty and such were lead by the propaganda agency called United States Agency for Global Media (which Trump recently defunded). It also supervised the Open Technology Fund (you can at the very least read on the wiki page of the OTF that it funded Signal). It is not a state secret that these are CIA programs. I can give you sources if needed when I’m at home. I’m pretty sure all of this was shown on their respective wikipedia pages but again, wikipedia is just an example for western and well accepted source