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Comment on: Google's requirement for developers to be verified threatens app store F-Droid
Unfortunately it's never going to happen.Also, things like TPMs, Secure Boot, etc, are good security tools which can be used by an end user to get security guarantees over their device.I use Secure Boot with Linux because, when done right, it means you can get full disk encryption without gaps (at best, without secure boot, you have an un-encrypted bootloader on a flash drive which decrypts your disk and boots your machine, and this is a clunky setup).I use GrapheneOS's hardware attestation to alert me if something compromises my android phone's operating system.Now it's true that these featur