knoppix6d ago

A new European consortium led by Volla is creating UnifiedAttestation, an open-source alternative to Google's Play Integrity API 📱.

This would enable secure payments and sensitive apps on Google-free custom ROMs, reducing dependency on proprietary US infrastructure and advancing user sovereignty 🔒.

🔗 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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Show threadGrapheneOS6d ago
@knoppix95 https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116200110686604617
Show threadknoppix6d ago

@GrapheneOS Hard for me to understand why you oppose to it, since the other way of pushing Big Techs to behave better will never happen.

I'm on your side anyway, so your point must be solid. Keep up the good work.

Show threadGrapheneOS6d ago
@knoppix95 European companies forming an anti-competitive cartel which permits their insecure products while forbidding GrapheneOS and most other options isn't a good thing. Android has a standard hardware attestation API which can be used to permit arbitrary alternate operating systems. What they're doing is making another phony system for supposedly checking security while in reality permitting their insecure products and locking out arbitrary competition. It's unethical and illegal.
Show threadPeachMcD

@GrapheneOS @knoppix95

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