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Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles creating an open source alternative to Google Play Integrity (www.heise.de)

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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.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.