Right. Sailfish developers have been in close working relationship with Russian government on Aurora OS (an official Russian government fork of Sailfish that is intended for the state operations and is also promoted to the average citizens). In the process, Russian government-affiliated developers have greatly contributed to the Sailfish OS code, based on that proud statement on Jolla’s blog
We’ve come a long way, since Sailfish OS was first introduced in 2013. Now as we enter the 4th generation with Sailfish OS, the secure platform for trusted mobile solutions, we can proudly say that our product is in great shape and ready to expand to new frontiers! After Sailfish 3 was launched...
blog.jolla.com
“ Long-term collaboration with OMP deploying Aurora OS in Russia has delivered tons of open source contributions to the OS”
Tons, eh…
These are the same Russian government developers that have been actively engaged in cyber war against Ukraine and cyber attacks on the Western institutions since the invasion started.
If you go to the official link to Aurora OS, it’s all in Russian but the Safari translation mode works exceptionally well. There, I found a link to OMP, the main Russian developer of Aurora, with this statement:
“ The only mobile OS in the register of Russian software, certified according to the requirements of regulators.”
So, would Putin’s government’s only officially certified mobile OS be truly inaccessible to their governmental hackers ? Seems more as “we like it because we own the backdoors” is the reason.
Not sure if I’d trust the OS with “tons” of contributions from them…