Remember when Google tried to bring remote “attestation” to PC web browsers? Everyone was horrified and they were forced to back down. Somehow when it happens to phones, people are slower to understand the danger — as if they’re not real computers, and naturally should belong to someone other than their nominal owners.

And rightfully so. Any kind of remote attestation is horrible for consumers.

I am more concerned about GrapheneOS still using Shitter and Reddit (especially when they apparently have their own Mastodon instance) then this largely inconsequential but slightly better than the status quo initiative by a tiny German phone reseller (Volla Systeme GmbH, not to be confused with those Finnish Jolla aka ex-Nokia people).