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.
Well, that can be said for many things, and I disagree with some of their arguments, but I agree with moving the dependency to a different consortium of phone vendors is much of the same.
Some vendor–independent attestation would be much preferable.
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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.
But… there’s so much money to be made by acting as the gatekeeper.
GrapheneOS isn’t happy about this: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116200110686604617
Well, that can be said for many things, and I disagree with some of their arguments, but I agree with moving the dependency to a different consortium of phone vendors is much of the same.
Some vendor–independent attestation would be much preferable.