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I discovered an easter egg in Android's security and didn't land a job at Google

5 pointsby tripdout12 months ago

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tripdout12 months ago
DroidGuard is particularly relevant nowadays (article from 2019) given that Google is using it to implement hardware-backed attestations (i.e. using device TEE) of device integrity.<p>Current cat-and-mouse game is to spoof props to a device that doesn&#x27;t support hardware attestation, but Google is somehow able to detect props used for spoofing (as opposed to using the actual device with those profs) and bans them.<p>Once Google decides that enough devices support hardware attestation and they get rid of software attestation, even unlocking the bootloader will trip it and you won&#x27;t be able to use apps that request this level, and this level is impossible (barring exploits) to spoof.