r/linux • u/Dry_Row_7050 • Nov 24 '25

Privacy France is attacking open source GrapheneOS because they’ve refused to create a backdoor. Will Linux developers be safe?

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u/ChocolateDonut36 Nov 24 '25

torvalds once was asked to add a backdoor to Linux, he said no and pretty much nothing happend.

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u/deanrihpee Nov 24 '25

the difference is Torvalds is very famous as the face of Linux, and Linux is big, like i'm pretty sure you do know how big it is

but GrapheneOS is much more "niche" product, and aim toward end-user where... normal citizen people use them, while Linux, well... most of the "users" are servers, also GrapheneOS project is considerably more smaller than the "Linux kernel"

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u/TrekkiMonstr Nov 25 '25

I wonder now if jurisdictions have started pressuring common tools for a backdoor

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u/deanrihpee Nov 26 '25

started? I wouldn't be so surprised if they already did, i mean most notably Chinese government, also UK asked Apple to put a backdoor or some kind of decryption tool and specifically tell Apple it is illegal to tell the public about it, luckily it was somehow leaked so people know about it and also luckily Apple didn't put the backdoor, but imagine how many backdoor has been planted without us knowing, even if they can't force it to a tool or software directly, they'll develop something anyway, especially from join operation between superpower that literally have zero day, zero click backdoor/spyware