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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by matheusmoreira on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:48PM (#33184747)
Minor annoyance? Android is becoming just as much of a locked down walled garden as iOS. Hardware remote attestation is already here and it threatens to deny access to apps to all rooted phones.

If I must be in one of these little walled gardens, I'm choosing the better kept one. It sure as hell isn't Google's.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by preisschild on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:22AM (#33188200)
> Hardware remote attestation is already here and it threatens to deny access to apps to all rooted phones

My phone is not rooted, but I use GrapheneOS on my Google Pixel for security hardening and to not have the google rootkit installed.

Funnily enough, even my banking app works, but not my countries eID system.

I imagine in a few years voting will be hard due to this bs ;(

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by matheusmoreira on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:06AM (#33192054)
Yeah, running GrapheneOS will cause remote attestation to fail, rooted or not. Because it's done in hardware, software like Magisk will be unable to fake the attestation. It's complete bullshit.
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