alt Hacker NewsGraphene relies on donations, and will be dependent on more than just the users where their lives are at risk.
If everyone in North America and Europe stopped using Graphene, I doubt they would last very long.
High standards are great, but they have to interact with the community and the sanctimony doesn't help.
In a world where economics makes security hardly a secondary concern, a situation exploited by both the intelligence and surveillance broker sectors, dogmatic sanctimony for high security is a feature and not a bug.