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That is likely to change in the near future. Hardware attestation of bootloader state is increasingly available. This is currently bypassed by pretending to be an older device that doesn't possess that capability. As long as device bootloaders continue to differentiate between stock and custom OS signing keys it won't be possible to bypass SafetyNet.

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kuratkull4y ago

Yeah, it seems you are right. I haven't been actively tracking the custom ROM market, but it seems Google is trying really hard to achieve widespread hardware attestation. Or they could just be waiting until all the old devices are off the market, so all of the "Hardware attestation: Unsupported" response cases can be marked as UnlockedBootloader with great confidence.

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