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Um, how? The alternative client can just pretend to be a generic browser, which wouldn't have an attestation API.
by Wowfunhappy 3y ago
Um, how? The alternative client can just pretend to be a generic browser, which wouldn't have an attestation API.
- iris2004 3y agoThe future Google and others have in mind will require remote attestation for access to media/banking/social media etc. This is part of the groundwork. See also TPM 2.0 requirements for Windows 11 and rapid deprecation of Windows 10.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoIt is reasonable to be concerned about what Google may do in the future. They have too much power. All the tech giants do. However, I can only comment on what Google is actually proposing. In the future, Google could do anything, regardless of whether or not this Android API exists.
- MuffinFlavored 3y agoor like Widevine CDM?
- gruez 3y ago>rapid deprecation of Windows 10. "rapid"? It's in line with their lifecycle policy when windows 10 came out.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoWhen Windows 10 came out, the messaging was that its lifecycle was probably indefinite: https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-may-be-last-version-windows-microsoft-rethinks-operating-system https://www.windowscentral.com/windows-10-may-be-last-versio...
- gruez 3y agoIf you read carefully, that claim was made by a "developer evangelist" and was no way an official statement from Microsoft corporate itself.
- mid-kid 3y agoThis. As long as any client can connect to it without attestation, things like NewPipe will remain working. I don't understand this fearmongering sometimes.