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MetropleX
@metroplex.bot

Google have properly shat the bed. I have a feeling the financial director asked AI/Gemini, what they could remove to save money that consumers wouldn't notice and that would create less issues for their corporate partners being shown up for their bad app development practices. It's answer MTE.

GrapheneOS@grapheneos.org

We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We're unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software, firmware and near certainly hardware. It appears Google cut an important security feature to save money.

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MetropleX
@metroplex.bot

bsky.app/profile/grap...

GrapheneOS@grapheneos.org

Neither iOS or Android encourage app developers to opt into MTE and other more aggressive security features used in the base OS. Apple's docs warn developers of performance and stability issues. Even Signal doesn't opt-in. Our approach enables forcing using MTE in the standard allocators regardless.

MetropleX
@metroplex.bot

The device lauding an AI future, removed a security feature to stand against the AI enabled vulnerability finding/exploiting AI future their own partner Anthropic with Claude Mythos AI model marketed as imminent. Pixel 11 is DOA.

MetropleX
@metroplex.bot

Apple have stolen the march off them. Motorola are going to supersede them. bsky.app/profile/grap...

GrapheneOS@grapheneos.org

Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is an always enabled feature on the iPhone 17. It's simply a high quality implementation of MTE using the latest standard extensions. It uses MTE in the most secure mode in the kernel and a large portion of userbase. They did a very good job integrating it.

Ellie Winters
@elliessurviving.is-extremely.gay

googles thought process is to see the security nightmare of LLM discovered vulns, and thought "it would be a great idea if we worsened security" wont be too long until its only either the GrapheneOS motorola devices or iPhones