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Based on the investigation done into it, it had a small subset of GrapheneOS changes applied and they falsely advertised it as GrapheneOS. They likely took some of the changes in order to mislead people into believing they were given a variant of GrapheneOS. It didn't use the GrapheneOS branding though. They used the already well established name and reputation of GrapheneOS to appeal to those it was being sold to.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/anom-phone-arcaneos-fbi-backdoor/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Android+operating+system-%2Cgrapheneos%2C-%2C+also+provided+Motherboard
From your article:
Then it's not copyright or trademark infringement
Doesn't matter how it was branded on the device, what matters for the infringement is how it was sold, we have information that they were being sold AS GrapheneOS using our trademark.
From the International Trademark Association
Our name being used alongside and for the promotion of these products infringes our Trademark outside of fair use.
Do you have any references to that? Pictures at least, or something? I mean, the person above repeatedly asks for details. Originally the claim was that the explanation is in the referenced article, but now it's not. Where is it then?
Nothing public no however it was stated to us by individuals similarly aware of these devices as those referenced in the vice article in contact with us.
I can see that if this were verified and true, with hard evidence provided, a big investigative news agency like The Guardian, would get their teeth of this and stick it on their headline pages. I think there is a lot of crap and conspiracy theories on the Internet and I still believe in true investigative jounalism. As a society, we are changing our habits, trusting social media rather that true journalism. This is why people like the orange man in the US and his pals in Israel an Russia are f***ing up the world. We are all falling for it ...