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They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies

Tiffany Ng · 2026-04-21 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

2 predictions
T1552.004Private Keys
36%
“longer part of copperheados. donaldson told me what he remembers saying to micay : “ you have to give the keys up, bro. like, if you don ’ t wanna give them to me, that ’ s fine. but our customers need to keep using their devices. ” “ he threatened to seize daniel ’ s workstation…”
T1588.002Tool
35%
“they built a legendary privacy tool. now they ’ re sworn enemies it ’ s difficult to find much information about daniel micay online. google him and you ’ ll turn up an impersonal x account and a barren linkedin page, plus some youtube “ exposes ” and flame wars on reddit and hac…”

Summary

There’s a lot of love all over the world for GrapheneOS, the gold standard of mobile security. There’s very little love between the two guys at the center of its history.