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perarnengyesterday at 3:43 PM3 repliesview on HN

What, MTE is such a promising tech and for security and now that we need all security we can get. WTF this is terrible development. You cant go backwards when the world needs getting even more secure.


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prism56yesterday at 4:12 PM

Such a shame. Google themselves barely utilised it in their stock builds. I wonder if there is some silicon or development overhead they decided to cut.

I'm optimistic about the Motorola partnership and when my 9 Pro is EOL I'll definitely look at how that's played out.

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WinstonSmith84yesterday at 4:24 PM

I don't understand much from MTE/Android or MIE/iOS but the explanation is also confusing when:

- They claim Apple did a great job integrating MIE in iOS - iOS doesn't encourage to opt into MTE ... Apple's docs warn developers of performance and stability issues

So it seems like even for iOS, this special security feature is only available for Apple own iOS app (at most?).

Then also:

> Even Signal doesn't opt-in. Our approach enables forcing using MTE in the standard allocators regardless.

So does that mean that Signal and any other apps are enrolled in MTE on Graphene?

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Limit5332yesterday at 4:56 PM

This isn't terrible development, it's simply that GrapheneOS devs can't do miracles They can't just continue supporting phones if they have security downgrades, especially if it's an important feature.

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