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Even just being rooted on the stock Pixel rom is a fight. It’s a constant cat and mouse game to pass basic and device integrity, but as of recently a lot of us have been able to pass strong integrity as well which has been nice.

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FutileRecipe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Even just being rooted on the stock Pixel rom is a fight.

That, I can see being more of an issue than an unmodified, trusted 3rd party OS. If I remember right, rooting makes the device fail Verified Boot:

It establishes a full chain of trust, starting from a hardware-protected root of trust to the bootloader, to the boot partition and other verified partitions including system, vendor, and optionally oem partitions.

source.android.com/docs/security/…/verifiedboot

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- Unreliable@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Fair point. At least with stock rooted as I said there’s ways around it and I can pass all play integrity checks and such.
  
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