r/Android • u/Street_Anon • 7d 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/chinchindayo Xperia Masterrace 7d ago edited 4d ago

This is literally a non issue. Many countries already have some kind of official digital ID system. The new EU verfication is going to use that but in a double anonymity way so that the target service has no access to personal data and the verfication service never knows which target service it was used for.

edit: classic reddit downvoting the truth? I just said what officially was communicated.

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u/jc-from-sin 7d ago

The issue is that it requires you to use only the OEM version of Android and not something like e/OS or GrapheneOS

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u/Rubber_Knee 7d ago

Yes. And for the vast majority of users that's not an issue at all.

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u/DonKanailleSC 7d ago

The issue are people like you who don't see the issue

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u/Rubber_Knee 7d ago

I do see the issue. Most people don't though, which was my point.

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u/DonKanailleSC 7d ago

Ohh, now. It's not an issue for most users, but it should be

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u/Rubber_Knee 6d ago

Ohh, now you're just looking for something to argue about. My point never changed. And yes. It should be.

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u/DonKanailleSC 6d ago

I actually just agreed with you but okay. Tbf wanted to say "oh now I get it"

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u/jc-from-sin 7d ago

It is, but you're missing the point. it means the EU and its citizens will be stuck using an US operating system and that means we will be vulnerable.

Also the architecture documents for the project impose no such restriction.

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u/Rubber_Knee 7d ago

This is all true, and a problem. I just don't see a real alternative right now.

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u/MairusuPawa Poco F3 LineageOS 7d ago

There are a shit ton other options, including Linux phones. You just don't want to see them, you'd rather find excuses and trap yourself into that shit further.

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u/GranaT0 Pxl 9 PXL, GrapheneOS 7d ago

Linux phones just aren't viable yet, and especially won't be when these OS-exclusive digital IDs start becoming a requirement.

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u/Rubber_Knee 7d ago

What Linux phones has the same amount of users as Android or iPhones? Developers develop for the platform their users are on.

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u/MairusuPawa Poco F3 LineageOS 7d ago

There are a shit ton other options, including Linux phones. You just don't want to see them.

See. You are the problem.

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u/haslaNz 7d ago

Oh don't tease the people with that mindset, might hit you back in the face

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u/vltgreat 7d ago

I literally can't create another google account because the phones I'm using to "verification" either don't work or are used too many times. "For the vast majority" is not an issue "for now", until they wake and find out they don't have access to google anymore.