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“Currently, MTE is only available on the Pixel as a developer option, intended for app developers to test their apps using MTE”

Mark Brandprojectzero.google ↗

ARM’s Memory Tagging Extensions catch memory corruption at the first bad access. Project Zero waited since late 2017 for a phone that ships it. The Pixel 8 has it, buried in developer options, and turning it on system-wide takes adb commands Google calls “absolutely not a supported device configuration.” Chrome mostly bypasses it with its own allocator. The mitigation Project Zero waited six years for ships switched off.