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

“With UnifiedAttestation, we are creating a transparent and trustworthy procedure for security checks that developers and app publishers can rely on equally. This removes the last hurdle for the use of alternative mobile operating systems,”

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Paying-without-Google-New-consortium-wants-to-remove-custom-ROM-hurdles-11204037.html

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

Using banking and payment apps on Android smartphones with custom ROMs is a problem: A European industry consortium now wants to change that.

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jbz Mar 10

｢ Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with Google Play services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone ｣

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Sobri | Zoe (she/her)Mar 10

@jbz whats wrong eith singing keys and trustless app stored?

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Aral Balkan Mar 10

@jbz The GrapheneOS folks are very vocally in opposition to it: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116200110686604617

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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/

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