@volla has initiated the industry consortium #UnifiedAttestation for an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity.
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@Phobos1641 @skywalker2k17 @GrapheneOS eff America and EU and all such entities. Read up on who Volla is, what it does. I mean it.
@vollaficationist @Phobos1641 @GrapheneOS I will, can you point me towards something as a starting point? I'm thinking they are the ones behind SailfishOS which is actually a pretty good Linux alternative. It's the others I'm not so sure about.
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@celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission Volla develops not only devices or OS, or AI and more. It's also developing a new ecosystem as well as an infrastructure. Full decoupling. A fully, autonomous communications system. GOS is a hundred thousand miles from this, right. They do googlag-ware and now even Moto, lol.
@vollaficationist @celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission And the Volla Phone Quintus is the Daria Bond 5G from an Emirates company (marked up by 560 Euro). Given that Eurowashing, maybe attacking GrapheneOS for using Pixel hardware is a bit rich? At least Pixel has proper device security.
Back to to the original topic. I only have a stake in this as an EU citizen, but having a small set of companies decide who can run what is bad, it's another attack on the freedom of EU citizens.
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@GrapheneOS @celeduc @guilg @EUCommission I hoped you'd come to this. GOOGLAG is better, right?!? And iPhone... Well, I rest my case. Perhaps you are not who you claim to be? Sure, you're registered in Canada. Registered.
@vollaficationist @GrapheneOS @celeduc @guilg @EUCommission Yes, an recent iPhone and an recent Pixel, even with the standard OS is much more secure than Volla and its Volla OS, which also supports the disastrous Ubuntu Touch.
Then, Volla is partner with the VPN provider hide.me and include their VPN applications in the operating system. I've never seen anything special about hide.me for security and privacty and I wouldn't trust an operating system that encourage me to use a random VPN provider, always with the misinformation that it would protect me Internet connection, or by making it more "private", including also AI, MicroG privileged and connections to a cloud service, etc, this is a huge red flag.
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@guilg @vollaficationist We've been actively fighting against the Play Integrity API for years. We were making substantial progress in both Europe and India. We've also been coordinating with multiple other companies towards filing a lawsuit against Google. Unified Attestation is an enormous gift to Google helping to legitimize what they're doing with the Play Integrity API. Volla is playing into the hands of authoritarians who want systems disallowing people using arbitrary hardware/software.
@GrapheneOS @guilg @vollaficationist Если бы помогли выиграть России суд над гуглом, где долг исчесляеться 37 нулями .
То денег на таки суды бы им не хватило.
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@vollaficationist In Operation Trojan Shield, a bunch of European states worked with the FBI to sell backdoored devices to organized crime. They marketed these devices as being based on GrapheneOS or as running GrapheneOS. They harmed the reputation of GrapheneOS by marketing it to criminals and put us at high risk of physical harm by violent criminals. More recently, multiple European states are attacking actual GrapheneOS falsely claiming it's mainly used by criminals.
ANOM – Darknet Diaries
In this episode, Joseph Cox tells us the story of ANOM. A secure phone made by criminals, for criminals.
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True.
I’ve read articles in Italian & Dutch outlets talking about the ‘danger’ of GrapheneOS, falsely claiming it's a phone for criminals. Some articles mentioned the new European Digital Wallet for storing IDs and payment cards; countries like Italy announced it wouldn't work on non-standard operating systems, only stock Android, iOS and GarminOS (all American companies). Some banks have lobbied against GrapheneOS and rushed to publish articles taking a similarly accusatory tone.In fact, these are campaigns led by the far right. They are the same people pushing for age checks on all OSs in the U.S., the same Nazis who pushed in the EU for ‘Chat Control’—who, in the name of combating pedophilia, were prepared to launch a ‘Stasi 2.0’ rather than look at those Epstein files...
This just goes to show that I made the right choice in opting for GrapheneOS... the day I’m forced to use something else will be the last day I’ll ever own a phone.
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@vollaficationist @celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission And the Volla Phone Quintus is the Daria Bond 5G from an Emirates company (marked up by 560 Euro). Given that Eurowashing, maybe attacking GrapheneOS for using Pixel hardware is a bit rich? At least Pixel has proper device security.
Back to to the original topic. I only have a stake in this as an EU citizen, but having a small set of companies decide who can run what is bad, it's another attack on the freedom of EU citizens.
@danieldk
I would agree to the lower paragraph and add the following thought:
Maybe it would be wise to not let the only companies with privacy in the mind get divided. Arguments ad hominem are not very convincing.
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@GrapheneOS please, how many people are hired by GOS for being all over social media 24/7? This day is my first and only day doing this. Would you guess why?
@vollaficationist @GrapheneOS shut your worthless larping. You don't answer GrapheneOS' queries regarding #VollaShit security in a mature manner. Its so obvious.
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@guilg @GrapheneOS I suspect GOS is more, or different, from what they state they are. And from where do we always see v projection?
@vollaficationist @guilg @GrapheneOS May I have an explanation why a new centralised verification through a new API built on the Android hardware attestation API is a better solution? I'm genuinely curious because to me it sounds exactly like Google's solution with a different entity in control.
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@vollaficationist @GrapheneOS An anti-competitive cartel violates the principle of fair competition not only in Canada but in most countries, including the EU.
Antitrust and Cartels
Antitrust and Cartels Overview
Competition Policy (competition-policy.ec.europa.eu)
Unified Attestation is an initiative with Murena, Iodé, and Volla, three untrustworthy for-profit companies that want to copy Google’s Play Integrity API, which is already abusive and illegal, to manipulate the market and impose their misleading standards.
There is nothing neutral about it, and the fact that it’s “open-source” doesn’t change a thing.
@Xtreix @vollaficationist @GrapheneOS So what are the alternatives? Sandboxed google? Not having banking apps? Not having alternative payment apps?
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@Xtreix @vollaficationist @GrapheneOS So what are the alternatives? Sandboxed google? Not having banking apps? Not having alternative payment apps?
The issue is that banks are required to have this attestation by credit card companies.@meowki @vollaficationist @GrapheneOS Most banking apps work well on GrapheneOS; check out this list : https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/
The attestation compatibility guide is a good, neutral approach that is not controlled by a centralized authority : https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide
Unified Attestation threatens the compatibility of apps for developers who refuse to participate in their illegal cartels. This seriously undermines the efforts of a project like GrapheneOS, which strives to make as many Android apps as possible compatible with a truly secure and privacy-respecting operating system, one without user accounts, AI, age verification, client-side analysis, or any default Google services nor any other tech companies, etc
We need to support it because there’s no one else doing what GrapheneOS does.
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@GrapheneOS This is currently being discussed. Nothing is written in stone. One way is to have an independent third-party highly renowned institution do test and certification. Please consider that UA is still very much "under construction." Please also note that we respect GOS' work, which is why we reached out to you half a year ago.
@vollaficationist I think that what @GrapheneOS means is:
Let's say UA exists, and what it does is certify OSs and provide a signature for secure boot or something like that. What happens if GOS or LineageOS or PostmarketOS fail their certification? What happens if that's because they decided the change they made to lose the certication was in the user's interest?
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@danieldk
I would agree to the lower paragraph and add the following thought:
Maybe it would be wise to not let the only companies with privacy in the mind get divided. Arguments ad hominem are not very convincing.
@vollaficationist @celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission @GrapheneOS@khw @vollaficationist @celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission Centralized remote attestation is diametrically opposed to privacy, since it makes projects vulnerable to pressure to weaken security & privacy, delay updates, etc.
AFAIK the support for remote attestation that is already provided in AOSP does not suffer from this issue, because there is not a single entity that enforces it (banks can whitelist signing key fingerprints).
So the only reason I can think of is control.
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@khw @vollaficationist @celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission Centralized remote attestation is diametrically opposed to privacy, since it makes projects vulnerable to pressure to weaken security & privacy, delay updates, etc.
AFAIK the support for remote attestation that is already provided in AOSP does not suffer from this issue, because there is not a single entity that enforces it (banks can whitelist signing key fingerprints).
So the only reason I can think of is control.
@khw @vollaficationist @celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission This is not just a theoretical concern.
Some European countries border on autocracy. Imagine that this initiative is successful. An autocrat could pressure Volla et al. to only attest phones that have a chat backdoor under the thread of banning them from the market.
It is anti-privacy, anti-security, and anti-freedom.
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@celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission Volla develops not only devices or OS, or AI and more. It's also developing a new ecosystem as well as an infrastructure. Full decoupling. A fully, autonomous communications system. GOS is a hundred thousand miles from this, right. They do googlag-ware and now even Moto, lol.
@vollaficationist
I was an early adopter and beta tester of the first Volla phone and VollaOS back in the days.
Development was a mess and the two supported operating systems were too much load for the company. Now that you develop AI I think that's the only chance to get things done for a bunch of rebranded low end devices running outdated insecure software.
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@danieldk
I would agree to the lower paragraph and add the following thought:
Maybe it would be wise to not let the only companies with privacy in the mind get divided. Arguments ad hominem are not very convincing.
@vollaficationist @celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission @GrapheneOS@khw @danieldk @vollaficationist @celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission I mean, Volla and co want to forbid you from running software of your choice. GOS wants you to be able to run any software you want. It's that's simple. That's not companies arguing, that's one company deciding to take away your personal freedoms for no reason.
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@khw @vollaficationist @celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission This is not just a theoretical concern.
Some European countries border on autocracy. Imagine that this initiative is successful. An autocrat could pressure Volla et al. to only attest phones that have a chat backdoor under the thread of banning them from the market.
It is anti-privacy, anti-security, and anti-freedom.
@danieldk
But that has nothing to do, whatsoever, with the attestation. That said state could pressure volla et al that only phones with backdoor are allowed in the EU.
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@GrapheneOS Which companies are "disallowed" to partake in #UnifiedAttestation? You have formally and informally been cordially invited. As are any and all other OS manufacturers. Please, let's ease the tone. What about a constructive talk? I believe we should support one another wherever possible and meaningful. Considering the vast market potential, we have all much to gain. Some will choose GOS, some VOS, etc. It's a big cake. Let's ditch Google - unified. Good day!
@vollaficationist @GrapheneOS "ease the tone"???? That was a succint couple of facts, you're being weird.
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@khw @danieldk @vollaficationist @celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission I mean, Volla and co want to forbid you from running software of your choice. GOS wants you to be able to run any software you want. It's that's simple. That's not companies arguing, that's one company deciding to take away your personal freedoms for no reason.
@engideer
I don't know about volla trying to forbid me running certain Software, but you are right. I haven't seen real arguments in this case for a long time. That's all I said. No arguments ad hominem, but arguments on this case, please.
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@danieldk
But that has nothing to do, whatsoever, with the attestation. That said state could pressure volla et al that only phones with backdoor are allowed in the EU.
@vollaficationist @celeduc @GrapheneOS @guilg @EUCommission@khw @danieldk @vollaficationist @celeduc @guilg @EUCommission It has everything to do with a centralized attestation system. Once this system starts being adopted, the EU can require it for banking/government apps as they began the process of doing with the Play Integrity API. They can then hijack it and begin enforcing their own requirements such including disallowing encryption without backdoors. There should be no organization in charge of which devices and operating systems are allowed.
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@khw @danieldk @vollaficationist @celeduc @guilg @EUCommission It has everything to do with a centralized attestation system. Once this system starts being adopted, the EU can require it for banking/government apps as they began the process of doing with the Play Integrity API. They can then hijack it and begin enforcing their own requirements such including disallowing encryption without backdoors. There should be no organization in charge of which devices and operating systems are allowed.
@khw @danieldk @vollaficationist @celeduc @guilg @EUCommission If companies insist on permitting only certain devices and operating to be used then the system should be one that's distributed around the world with multiple neutral organizations not tied to the companies making devices or governments. However, delaying updates for certification is inherently anti-security. It would be impossible to quickly ship security patches without breaking compatibility with many important apps.
