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> If the bank wants some assurance about a device, they need to sell or issue one to me, like credit cards or point of sale machines, which are explicitly not your property.

In this example, a banking app is not making the entire Android device non functional when it refuses to work when remote attestation like Play Integrity fails.

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It is colluding with a third party to increase their power. What devices pass Play Integrity? Yeah, the same ones with all the telemetry and spying that you can't remove. I thought the government is supposed to protect consumer rights, not to tilt the playing field even further.

Like I said, I'd be fine if they offer a viable alternative, like a card or a physical authentication dongle (which doesn't require spyware to use).


I don't want to depend on google and android for EU mobile attestation or the like. I didn't think anyone wants government enforced duopolies.



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