by bernoufakis | 2025-07-25 18:55:49+00:00
> It's objectively clear though, that this is a very low quality video full of baseless speculation, and severely lacking any technical understanding and knowledge.

"Baseless" could not be further away from the truth. You literally have the GOS developer messages coming in live while he rehashes frivolous accusations and threatening to exposing him. To claim objectivity, when you seem to cherry pick the parts of the video that would (loosely) fit your narrative. Where is your evidence that Rossmann is in anyway associated to harassment campaign against the project ?

> This is exactly the same as going to a restaurant, having an argument with the owner, and then claiming that they might be putting poison in the food, even though there's absolutely zero evidence or anything that might indicate that, solely because you had a disagreement with someone and now want to harm their reputation.

Damn, so close, you were almost there. A more accurate analogy you could have come up with, had you actually critically listened to Rossmann's argument in his video. Yes, it's like going to a restaurant and having a disagreement with the cook, for the latter to explicitly threaten to harm onto you. At that point, is it that far fetched to think he might poison the food ? When you know he has full control over the kitchen ?

You can disagree with Rossmann perception of the actual threat, but you should at least admit that it is not absurd for Rossmann to think that someone who demonstrated such irrational behavior might attempt to harm in through the means at their disposal, among which introducing malicious code. It might be unlikely given what we know about software dev, but it is not impossible, and for Rossmann, that is the only thing that matters at the end of the day.

Moreover, the GOS dev himself clearly stated he would "publicly expose him" (At 2:14 in https://youtu.be/4To-F6W1NT0?t=134 "and there will be information published about your (Rossmann) attacks on me in support of an abusive person). Why the double standard ? That GOS dev can go around dishing out "reputational harm" but his targets doing the same is not fair game ?

At this point, Rossmann did him a service by publishing everything himself. As far as any reputational harm is concerned, the GOS developer essentially brought it on himself. Could have dropped back when they had the fallout in September 2022, as per the chat logs (<https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/d75ff782-4a7d-4497-b04e-edd1...>) ...

> I would go further and say that it was his intention of harming the project's reputation, but that's just my personal opinion.

Sure, "harm the reputation of the project" when he was proactively giving them no string attached grants, spreading the word, and giving them an opportunities to tell their side of the story ...

> I'm quite certain that there are more people than just me, who think that someone with close to two million subscribers on YouTube should fulfill due diligence by doing some basic research and at least read the extensive official documentation that's provided, before putting out a video with serious allegations and a very high potential of harming someone's reputation.

Then in the first place, perhaps the cyber security geniuses who built a privacy and security oriented OS for smartphone could do the due diligence of gathering and presenting actual evidence of Rossmann implication in the alleged harassment campaign before before posting multiple accusatory statements across their socials media "with serious allegations and a very high potential of harming someone's reputation" ?