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By this logic, anyone who has had a Google Pixel and or is running GrapheneOS is guilty by association, right?

Just wanted to understand your point.

> By this logic, anyone who has had a Google Pixel and or is running GrapheneOS is guilty by association, right?

Yup. https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-organized-crim...

The source for that article was a single cop in a single country (Spain) making an off-handed comment. The way it’s been spun as a universal concept in Europe by all of the Android blogs is misleading.

Would you predict that GrapheneOS will still be completely legal in 10 years in Spain?

Yes. I think that one comment was a flash in the pan about a particular moment in time from an officer involved in a very specific type of drug trafficking prosecutions.

There's a big difference between being the user of something (Pixel/GrapheneOS, though I find these as weird comparisons given) and being an operator of something.

Operating an exit node is by definition you acting in the distribution of such activity (legal or not).

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