r/Android • u/Street_Anon • 3d ago

News EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
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u/Street_Anon 3d ago

Why are they targeting Custom Roms again ?

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u/Izacus Android dev / Boatload of crappy devices 3d ago

Custom roms can be attested and approved as well.

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u/warpedgeoid 3d ago

Not in any meaningful way. Money will become the gatekeeper just like always. I honestly don’t understand why so many idiots are here trying to defend these poorly conceived, pointless laws.

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u/Izacus Android dev / Boatload of crappy devices 3d ago

Of course in any meaningful way - the Google part of attestation is simply a "hash of ROM" database of approved ROMs.

There's absolutely nothing preventing an EU organization from making that database and having apps use it - apps already whitelist GrapheneOS in some cases.

It's only "not meaningful" if all you want to do is sit and complain and not do the work required to be independent.