I said subconsciously. It sounds cool man but the reluctantance to integrate something most users on android are asking for doesn't make a lot of sense to me. But I'm sure you have your reasons and I won't question them.

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jb55 _@jb55.com 3 months ago
I have explained my reasons multiple times. Amber/citrine/pokey are a model where the android OS is the host OS, notedeck is cross-platform, so having these features in the virtual machine makes things more consistent and portable across platforms. The amount of armchair engineers telling me how to engineer this new system is wild. They think i can’t make it secure either, like somehow rawdogging it into amber will be more secure than a properly engineered signer enclave in the virtual machine separated from the micro apps. Granted i still need to implement this since we don’t have any untrusted apps, but it won’t be any less secure than amber.
For the record I didn't chime in with armchair engineering. I read your reasoning. That's why I didn't question it. All I did was say it's a shame and it would be nice if you considered adding it because everyone on android wants it. Then I zapped you. My assumptions are just those. Assumptions. And I'm more than willing to be wrong. Fwiw I don't think @Vitor Pamplona is just an armchair engineer either. I am more than willing to admit I am. I mean with software. I'm a real engineer in construction. 😂