Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store
Zak@lemmy.world 1 day agoNo, Google is also trying to stop hobbyists running custom builds from accessing services built on their software (the aforementioned SafetyNet). Hackers keep finding ways around this, but Google keeps trying to lock them out.
That’s a side effect. If Google really wanted to interfere with hobbyists, they would mandate hardware-based attestation and all the current workarounds would be broken. It would be much harder to create workarounds for that.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And also all current phones would be broken, which they can’t do.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It appears phones as old as the Android 8 era can support this and phones that shipped with Android 13 or newer always do. I had the impression it had been universal a little longer.