I love the Android dev community so I'm sad to see that the job is getting harder, but I don't think that implementing a verified boot mechanism is necessarily

I love the Android dev community so I'm sad to see that the job is getting harder, but I don't think that implementing a verified boot mechanism is necessarily an anti-modder move by Google. They've implemented security like this to great effect on Chrome OS, which is one of the most secure operating systems you can get out of the box. It would be great for the average person to know that their Android phone is super-secure, and it would encourage the penetration of Android into enterprise and military applications, where security is a huge concern.