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How large is this preinfected phones problem? Is it large enough to sacrifice freedom?
by ruszki 7mo ago
How large is this preinfected phones problem? Is it large enough to sacrifice freedom?
- Avamander 7mo agoWe have had a large discovery of pre-installed malware every year for the past decade so far. Seems like a fairly big problem.
- seba_dos1 7mo agoAnd how exactly did attestation help there? Securing apps from the user does not secure the user from malware.
- Avamander 7mo agoNow you can't bundle malware deep within the system "ROM" unless you want to break SafetyNet's attestation. It's a big change in that aspect.
- ruszki 6mo agoCustom ROMs tell you that this is not true at all.
- Avamander 6mo agoCustom ROMs no longer pass SafetyNet attestation, which apps such as banking ones (or streaming service ones) check.
- ruszki 6mo agoI hope you mean Play Integrity, since there is no SafetyNet attestation anymore. And for that: https://github.com/osm0sis/PlayIntegrityFork https://github.com/osm0sis/PlayIntegrityFork But there were similar things for SafetyNet attestation until it existed.
- Avamander 6mo agoProduct rebrandings are kinda irrelevant. Your link nicely says "as a general rule you can't use values from recent devices due to them only being allowed with full hardware backed attestation". These attestation workarounds have been rendered increasingly obsolete.