Graphene OS has had just about enough of Google not doing more to make Android compatible with custom ROM projects.

TL;DR

  • Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android.
  • The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and flawed.
  • Graphene OS is prepared to take legal action if Google won’t let it pass Play Integrity checks.
    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      How does one flash a ROM without unlocking the bootloader these days?

      Shouldn’t that break Android Verified Boot?

      A pure GSI image could use a Google key, I suppose, but others shouldn’t, right?

    • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      ngl a unlocked bootloader would be a security nightmare

      So, like a desktop or laptop? Sounds fine to me.

    • FinnFooted@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I’m not an expert, but I had an expert explain that an unlocked boot loader is only risky if you think someone nefarious is physically able to get their hand on your phone. Is that true?