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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles

https://feddit.org/post/26894145

Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles - feddit.org

Lemmy

Mar 10 at 7:14amWeb
Show threadandybytesMar 10
hopeful
Show threadonlinepersonaMar 10
I hope this picks up. Apps dependent on google services for no reason are such a pain.
Show threadladMar 10
It seems to be the same manner of a closed ecosystem, just EU branded
Show threadLudicrous0251Mar 10
“New Consortium wants to be the arbiter of which phone OSs are allowed to access basic features. Spoiler: it’s theirs.”
Show threadonlinepersonaMar 10

Opensource. I don’t understand everything it does but that has to count for something.

What would be a better solution?

Show threadvrighterMar 10
banning the thing. It’s not bad because it’s google, it’s bad because it takes away our freedom of choosing whichever devices and operating systems we want
Show threadonlinepersonaMar 10
Chesterton’s Fence…
Show threadvrighterMar 10
i don’t understand the reference. We don’t want the fence built. The fence is not already there and we all have no idea of the reason it was put up. On the contrary, we don’t want it up because we know the reason. This will not help security. This will help no one
Show threadSUSaiyanMar 10
Here is what GrapheneOS thinks about it, and i have to say I agree.
GrapheneOS (@[email protected])

We strongly oppose the Unified Attestation initiative and call for app developers supporting privacy, security and freedom on mobile to avoid it. Companies selling phones should not be deciding which operating systems people are allowed to use for apps. https://uattest.net/

GrapheneOS Mastodon
Show threadgsvMar 10

Do I get this right? A hand full of OS devs who also sell phones form a group that attests combinations of phones and certified copies of their OSs as secure?
Sounds like self-verifying the own ecosystem of devices and OSs in a cartel-like consortium. But wasn’t that to be circumvented? Shouldn’t the certifying body be independent of the certified products?

I am having questions.