Oh, Joy. Another Android “Security” Thing
Right, so Google’s PKVM hypervisor – that’s the thing letting Android run virtual machines, because apparently making a secure OS *properly* is too much effort – has gotten some fancy certification called SESIP Level 5. SESIP, for those keeping score at home, means it passed some tests cooked up by some security folks. Level 5 is supposed to be the highest level, meaning it’s “resistant” to attacks. Resistant. Not *immune*. Big difference, you morons.
Basically, they poked at it with sticks and didn’t immediately break everything. This doesn’t mean it *is* secure, just that it met some arbitrary standards. It’s all about isolating sensitive stuff like payments and DRM (because protecting corporate profits is way more important than your data). Qualcomm was involved too, naturally; gotta protect those chip designs somehow.
The whole thing revolves around ARM’s TrustZone tech, which has had its share of vulnerabilities. So yeah, this PKVM thing *might* be a little better than whatever garbage fire Android shipped with before, but don’t go thinking your phone is suddenly Fort Knox. It still runs Android, for fuck’s sake.
Expect more marketing fluff about how secure everything is while the exploit-peddlers are already finding ways around it. It’s always the same damn story.
Anecdote: I once had to debug a system where someone thought adding more layers of encryption would fix a fundamental flaw in their authentication protocol. They ended up with a slower, *more* vulnerable mess. This PKVM thing feels exactly like that. More complexity doesn’t equal security; it equals more things that can go wrong.
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