Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker

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WIRED published an article on GrapheneOS relying heavily on fabrications from James Donaldson, who has spent 8 years trying to harm the project and its founder Daniel Micay.
Copperhead, a company co-founded by Donaldson, was propped up by the open-source project and later became a zombie company with no significant operations after the split.
Donaldson stole around $300,000 in Bitcoin donations meant for the open-source project and engaged in failed lawsuits and closed-source forks to profit from it.
After the split, GrapheneOS became highly successful, funded entirely by donations, with around 10 full-time developers and plans to hire more, contrasting its earlier struggles under Copperhead.
Daniel Micay retained control of the project's keys and infrastructure, refusing Donaldson's demands that would compromise security, leading to the deletion of signing keys to prevent malicious access.
GrapheneOS is now run by the non-profit GrapheneOS Foundation, with Micay not paying himself from it and focusing on open-source development and community donations.
The article misrepresented Micay's community manager as possibly being Micay himself, despite clear differences, and omitted most of the project's factual responses to Donaldson's claims.

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