[yvely]

GrapheneOS devs should approach the EU for support here in my opinion. Right about now the EU, or at least many member nations, are very interested in ensuring ability to take ownership of important/critical solutions.

[nickslaughter02]

EU is actively seeking mandatory backdoors into phones among others (look up ProtectEU). EU is the last entity they should be in contact with.

"Experts "deeply concerned" by the EU plan to weaken encryption" https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/experts-d...

[yvely]

These things i am also against. But there is at the same time an interest in allowing data security and ability to repair, f.x. I would never suggest an EU led or controlled version, but the EU has many types of resource and overlapping goals I think.

[NotPractical]

I mean yeah, that's bad, but enemy of my enemy? Asking the EU for something doesn't imply that you endorse everything they do. Also, they've already reached out to the EU, IIRC. (Not sure if that went anywhere.)

As for whether or not the EU can or will help them, I have no idea.

[WhyNotHugo]

I don’t see how the EU can help. They need access to source code that belongs to Google and Google is under no obligation to legal disclose.

The legal changes require to force then to do so are wildly beyond what we can expect from the EU.

[yvely]

I was actually thinking funding and networking. I do agree with what you said.