I'm honestly surprised by the negative sentiment here. Government certified digital identity is the obvious solution to spam & online disinformation. In the short term bot farms will lose the ability to influence social media. In the long term it'll allow us to distinguish real people from AI agents, true scientists from pseudo-scientists, actual journalists from state-sponsored fake-news spreaders. It's a key technology that fediverse needs to survive in a world flooded by AI content. Finally it's something that can save democracy from literally falling apart. Remember that democracy only works if citizens are well informed. Otherwise those who control the information are the true rulers.

It's also complete bullshit that third party ROMs can't get proper attestations. It's a statement literally made up by the OP. Third part ROMs can get the keys. They just need to go through the attestation process (which BTW can be fully automated) and publish signed images for users.

Don't like the existing integrity providers (Google, Apple)? Make your own. The system is designed to be flexible and not rely on single integrity providers. Or tell us how else you'd like to solve these serious and growing problems.

Sorry for the rant-y comment. I'm tired of people who only complain and nitpick.