[hallman76]

> Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such

From a compliance POV what's an acceptable alternative? Would some unix variant be any more palatable?

[mbreese]

In some industries, anything that “computes” or has a data connection is strictly regulated. If data can move in or out, it needs to be verified.

So, if you want to avoid those validation steps, it would need to be a dumb device without an OS. Like the parent said - just a monitor.

[ngneer]

I agree with the sentiment, but it is harder and harder to find truly "dumb" devices anymore. USB has a complicated (and vulnerable) firmware stack. Monitors have hackable on screen display controllers. Unless you want to go back to VGA... Just saying...

https://github.com/redballoonshenanigans/monitordarkly

[milesward]

What about a firmware flash that nukes the Android part and makes it behave as a display, which hopefully you can flash back to your OS if policy or usecase changes?

[panzagl]

I would think the main thing would be no network hardware and ideally no network stack. After that, a minimum of local storage- nothing persistent outside of firmware, and certainly nothing that would provide any type of file system visible to the host computer.