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8 Feb, 7 tweets, 3 min read
@PaulBarnacle The company was started as a security consulting company and was supposed to sell contract work and support. It was not supposed to be based around my project. It was explicitly agreed upon that my open source work would remain under my control and ownership, and it did.
@PaulBarnacle The company was not starting 'using code' that I wrote. My project was not the basis for the company. The company failed to become an actual security consulting company and ended up not having anything beyond selling people phones flashed with my open source project.
@PaulBarnacle The company was supposed to have made custom variants of the open source project for vendors. None of that stuff worked out. It was a disaster from the beginning and I was getting less than 20k/year from it. I got more money from Google during those years submitting work to them.
@PaulBarnacle You seem to be misunderstand what was forked. Near the end, James started trying to coerce me into handing over ownership of my project to him. He framed it as a negotiation but it was anything but that. I never signed over anything to the company and did not make it for them.
@PaulBarnacle He didn't start claiming that the company owned it until substantially after he failed to convince me to give in to his demands. Once they'd pushed me out, they filed a fraudulent copyright claim falsely claiming that I'd assigned copyright to the company which is totally false.
@PaulBarnacle They forked my project from GitHub and uploaded it as a new set of repositories. They added a Copperhead copyright notice to their forks to try to retroactively frame it as code that they owned. That died pretty fast, and now they just have a closed source fork of my work.
@PaulBarnacle The company became totally based around my work because it didn't produce anything of value. It took far more of my money than I received from it. I trusted James with handling the intake of donations for my project. People were told they were donating to me. He stole most of it.

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7 Feb
@FiloSottile @JulianWasTaken He did this to @renlord1 because he helped with porting my open source work on hardening Bionic libc to a newer version of Android. The work was published under open source licenses and I'm the author and owner of it. Copperhead agreed to sponsor my work under those terms.
@FiloSottile @JulianWasTaken @renlord1 It's possible to look at archives of it on GitHub and see that it was published that way. I temporarily re-licensed my work under a non-commercial usage license from January 2017 to around June 2018. I never assigned copyright to the company, and my project predates the company.
@FiloSottile @JulianWasTaken @renlord1 Their position is that they somehow magically got copyright ownership over the entirety of my past, present and future work without any agreement of that kind. It goes against the explicit agreements we had that developers owned their work. That is what we told people too.
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7 Feb


Copperhead has repeatedly threatened open source developers and used underhanded methods to try causing harm to them. At the same time, they depend entirely on the code we're writing and continue taking it. I hope that people stop funding these attacks.
They're trying to cause serious harm to people for daring to improve open source software. They forked our software and sell a very flawed version of it with tracking and far less hardening as a closed source product. They see the original project as a threat to their scamming.
This is far from the only person Copperhead has tried to intimidate and harm for contributing to open source software. They target people based on what they perceive as their vulnerabilities. Don't fall for their CEO trying to make himself out to be a victim. He's a sociopath.
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6 Feb


This doesn't sit right with me. I don't find @matthew_d_green's gut feeling that this person was part of a government scheme to backdoor cryptography to be a valid reason to send a mob after them 12 years later. They aren't even the main author of this.
The information security community gives the benefit of the doubt to a lot of people who in the past compromised organizations and users.

In this case, we don't know she did that, and even if we did it's not like she was maliciously hacking people and dumping their mail spools.
Assume that there is really an elaborate backdoor. There's enough circumstance evidence to believe it. The Extended Random feature by itself isn't a backdoor:



I think the fact this person attached their name to it publicly hints they may not have known.
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3 Feb


Copperhead is still squatting on these domain names. GrapheneOS was formerly known as CopperheadOS and we used that name for the project before the company existed. This name was adopted afterwards. They have no valid reason to be using it...
Maybe it's time to make another attempt to get @Twitter to return the open source project's Twitter account.

Copperhead tricked Twitter into letting them hijack it by reversing an email change months earlier away from daniel.micay@copperhead.co when I stopped trusting James...
To be clear, I'm talking about the project's previous Twitter account, not the new @GrapheneOS account created as a replacement for it. I created this personal account as the initial replacement for it in June 2018 after the original project account was hijacked by them.
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3 Feb


This is so tiring. Don't get a single day without multiple serious attempts to harm the project by Copperhead and their associates. They reach out to tons of people trying to trick them with their false narratives in private. They threaten contributors.
They don't seem to get that they're never going to succeed at destroying the project. Considering that they're still copying our code, documentation and even things like tweets it's really not sure what they are trying to accomplish. They're nothing without our code and research.
In response to GrapheneOS getting more attention, they're ramping up their attacks. The privacy and security industries are full of these charlatans building businesses on dishonest marketing and harming others. This is such an extreme case. They're so invested in harming us.
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3 Feb
@CitadelHyperion @GrapheneOS It's a good comparison. The privacy and security industries are full of charlatans / scammers. James Donaldson (Copperhead CEO) is one of them. He's a narcissistic sociopath obsessed with causing harm to us in any way possible. He's obsessed with harming us in any way he can.
@CitadelHyperion @GrapheneOS He finds people he can trick, just like Craig. He gets sponsored reviews and content published by people that are trusted by others in the cryptocurrency community. Buys them phones, brings them into his business as resellers, etc. That's how he's getting resources to harm us.
@CitadelHyperion @GrapheneOS They sell a poor clone of our work with tracking for license enforcement for a huge amount of money. That money largely goes to bogus legal attacks and further promoting it in the same way. They're getting increasing desperate and are constantly spreading misinformation/attacks.
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