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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles (www.heise.de)
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[–] gsv@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Do I get this right? A hand full of OS devs who also sell phones form a group that attests combinations of phones and certified copies of their OSs as secure?
Sounds like self-verifying the own ecosystem of devices and OSs in a cartel-like consortium. But wasn’t that to be circumvented? Shouldn’t the certifying body be independent of the certified products?

I am having questions.