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you can keep verified boot on custom roms. play services expose you to googles nsa'd taps we'll hear about in 5y.

source: im another google engineer

https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot/verified-bo...

How do you propose a custom rom can establish hardware root of trust without being signed by the device manufacturer?

I believe the point is that such a signature is useless since the software signed as safe is actually unsafe, while a self-signed rom at least has a chance to be safe.

this reminds me of when team-teso had their stuff on their website directly accessible over https.. so they used a self-signed cert, so that no govt or corporation could require a MITM with a valid signed cert from any trusted CA.

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