GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE) (grapheneos.social)
from cm0002@toast.ooo to cybersecurity@infosec.pub on 30 Aug 00:48
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4am@lemmy.zip on 30 Aug 06:38 collapse

Wild.

I wonder if this is at the request of intelligence agencies who need more attack surfaces to inject monitoring?

frongt@lemmy.zip on 30 Aug 18:25 collapse

“It’s cheaper” is a simpler explanation, and therefore more likely the right one.

Ptsf@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 19:09 collapse

That doesn’t make sense when you stack it against the cost of other efforts Google takes with the pixel phones surrounding security. MTE is arguably more important than even the titan chip, and a whole security enclave isn’t exactly cheap either.