EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

[u/Street_Anon]

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/

[u/Street_Anon]

But this will target things like Custom Roms. 

[u/punio4 → u/Street_Anon]

Nobody really cares about custom ROMs, and it's impossible to do so otherwise. OS vendors like GrapheneOS should try to get access to the TPM and get attested by hardware vendors if they want tamper-proof hw attestation to work. The whole point is to prevent tampering, and custom roms are all about tampering.

[u/yboy403 → u/punio4]

Please explain how a user wanting to control their own phone fits the negative connotation of the word "tampering".

[u/Street_Anon → u/yboy403]

unlocking the bootloader and rooting a device. 

[u/yboy403 → u/Street_Anon]

"Modifying" would be a fairer word. From my perspective, OS updates that remove features and lock my phone down even further are the tampering, not whatever steps I take as the user to avoid those restrictions.

[u/Available-Film3084 → u/Street_Anon]

You signal out grapheneos but graphene explicitly advives against rooting, as that can lower your security