GrapheneOS may skip Pixel 11 over missing hardware security feature
- GrapheneOS says it may abandon support for Google’s Pixel 11 series after discovering that the new devices appear to lack usable support for ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE).
- MTE is a hardware security feature the privacy-focused Android project relies on extensively to mitigate memory corruption exploits.
- The GrapheneOS team disclosed the issue on X after spending roughly a week on a partial Pixel 11 port.
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- GrapheneOS says it may abandon support for Google’s Pixel 11 series after discovering that the new devices appear to lack usable support for ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE).
- MTE is a hardware security feature the privacy-focused Android project relies on extensively to mitigate memory corruption exploits.
- The GrapheneOS team disclosed the issue on X after spending roughly a week on a partial Pixel 11 port.
Sources: Cyberinsider