Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles
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Using banking and payment apps on Android smartphones with custom ROMs is a problem: A European industry consortium now wants to change that.

Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with Google Play services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.

  • grue@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 hours ago

    Like when you run apt install some-package who says that some-package doesn’t contain malware?

    The Debian (or Ubuntu) package maintainer says that. Having an application package available in a distro’s official repository is an endorsement of the safety of that package.

    This is something people need to appreciate before they go adding PPAs and flatpaks and whatnot willy-nilly.