isn't this just asking your age when the OS is installed? in that case can't they just install any non-hacked distro and lie? there's no verification, is there?
I think the bigger issue is that supporting more devices can add a ton of extra work to the dev team, which is small. That could sacrifice the integrity of the whole project.
The envelopes in the closet thing is that he could just buy a ton of them at once so he doesn't need to walk to get them one hundred times. That would be the most efficient option. But it's also the most boring.
Worst case scenario where Google makes it extremely difficult going forward, what is the hard part about just never rebasing onto future work from Google?
From what I've seen there hasn't been significant core work on Android for a long time. It's been mostly changing from rounded corners to square corners to rounded corners, or shoving AI into every nook and cranny.
I'd think a small dev team like Graphene could maintain their AOSP fork moving forward.
IDK, I'd think the best path forward would be to just fork Android and move on from there. That's what Graphene OS already does. Just standardize on Graphene OS for everything and get them more devs / resources.
Would Mullvad even legally need to comply with UK laws if they don't have a server in the UK? Maybe they could allow UK user but just not operate out of UK?
Why do banks need a hardware attestation, out of curiosity? I'd assume that banking apps are just clients so all that matters is if they have creds or not.
I'm not even sure what incentive they would have. We already have a huge problem with citizens not voting because they think their vote won't change anything. Is anyone going to think "I'm going to risk going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for me to spend my free time filling out a ballot box which will have a 0.000001% chance of having any effect"?
Akira Kurosawa's lesser known works. He's most famous for films like Seven Samurai or Yojimbo, but his other films like The Bad Sleep Well are super amazing too. It's a film noir movie with a strong anti-corporation message I bet would resonate with a lot of people here.
isn't this just asking your age when the OS is installed? in that case can't they just install any non-hacked distro and lie? there's no verification, is there?