Don’t get too hopeful, this consortium still wants locked bootloaders, boot images signed only by a certain set of companies, and a lack of root access. So same shit, but different company and open source.
How about we just stop all this attestation BS and let people do what they want with the phones they bought and paid for as long as they’re not harming anyone.
Had this argument with someone earlier noting that you’re gonna start seeing device attestation for general PCs using Secure Boot before a site will load, and noted that will most likely be Windows only. Their response was that Linux can be signed and locked.
Though this is technically true, I’m curious how many people using Linux would be using to forgo root on their own device with a signed boot loader. It’ll basically implement the same issue with a different OS.
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Don’t get too hopeful, this consortium still wants locked bootloaders, boot images signed only by a certain set of companies, and a lack of root access. So same shit, but different company and open source.
How about we just stop all this attestation BS and let people do what they want with the phones they bought and paid for as long as they’re not harming anyone.
Had this argument with someone earlier noting that you’re gonna start seeing device attestation for general PCs using Secure Boot before a site will load, and noted that will most likely be Windows only. Their response was that Linux can be signed and locked.
Though this is technically true, I’m curious how many people using Linux would be using to forgo root on their own device with a signed boot loader. It’ll basically implement the same issue with a different OS.
But… there’s so much money to be made by acting as the gatekeeper.