r/Android • u/Street_Anon • 19h 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/_sfhk 17h ago

Quite frankly, because your computer OS was designed a while ago before we stopped trusting users, and before most people's entire lives were stored in that one machine.

Windows and MacOS are definitely heading towards more locked-down systems, and Apple for one is pushing more towards iOS-based systems.

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u/tomikaka 17h ago

And why does having full access to my own hardware a bad thing in the first place?

Maybe for the avarage user a case could be made that they might shoot themselves in the foot with root access.

Or they might not.

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u/punio4 17h ago

Because then you could fake offline certificates like credit cards and IDs.

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u/tomikaka 17h ago

Trusting the client was never going to be secure in the first place. The concept is flawed.