[aunty_helen]

Don’t you need that sort of paranoia to go out and create a privacy focused mobile OS?

[cladopa]

It is not called "paranoia" if it is real that they are coming after you.

Have you not seen what happened to Telegram CEO?

[jjgreen]

A world-weary cynicism suffices.

[idle_zealot]

I expect that most cynics would just keep their heads down and use iOS or something. The intense idealism needed to motivate something like Graphene is compatible with paranoia, but not with weariness.

[bigbadfeline]

> The intense idealism needed to motivate something like Graphene

Yes, the intense idealism of the brainwashed and oblivious prompted the realistic Graphene creators to do something themselves instead of waiting for other realistic folks who happen to be few and far between.