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It's incredibly funny, because a lot of these companies behave the same as the duopoly that people try to get away from. Murena's CEO repeatedly stated that security hardening is only needed for secret agents and criminals (explicitly calling out child porn), pushing the same narratives as the people pushing chat control, age verification, etc.

Volla and Murena are pushing Unified Attestation, a similar system to Google Play Strong Integrity, that they can use to block competition.

Besides that, both Murena and Volla have abysmal security and Volla is mostly in the business of German-washing Chinese smartphones. E.g. their Volla Phone Quintus is a smartphone designed by an Emirates company, largely produced in China, that can be had for 150 Euro new on the ebay.ae .