https://github.com/thestinger/daniel.micay.dev/commit/79e44b...
They just stepped down as the official head and stopped making public comments. They still are a major developer for the project and still seem to own/run parts of the project.
On one hand, the track record for the actual OS is still completely fine as far as anyone knows. On the other hand, the stuff said and done on record is pretty tough to swallow for someone you are investing a lot of trust into, for an OS that is meant to be privacy and security focused.
Like. It's one thing if you are a casual user running random ROMs off XDA, the risk is high and the only real assurance you get is online reputation and the normal assurances of social pressure. But this is software endorsed by Edward Snowden and many others whose opinions regarding security and privacy are well-regarded. The stakes could be quite high for some users. In the light of that, I really don't like the situation here at all.
Dismiss it if you want to, but there's really absolutely no good reason for this to simply remain effectively unaddressed indefinitely.
So if it happened, who replaced them? Are they trustworthy? At least in my cursory searching, I didn't figure out an answer to that.
I assume the answer is actually out there, but I don't have it.
> Whether he still lurks the GrapheneOS discussion threads or not, or whether he is currently undergoing therapy or just chilling with a good book isn't really anyone else's business.
Sure, whatever. But failing any information about whether or not anything happened, I assume they still have root access to critical infrastructure. If so... I mean, naturally, the problem of trust hasn't changed much. If that's the case, then you still need to trust them to trust GrapheneOS. Can you? Don't know.