▲ | jrflowers 2 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is a good point. While there is nothing factually incorrect in the statement “rooting your phone can void your warranty and pose a security risk”, if you imagine factual statements are the same thing as value judgments it becomes very problematic. Similarly it is pretty messed up when people say stuff like “fire can burn you if you aren’t careful” because so many people rely on fire for food and warmth. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | fc417fc802 a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Having your vehicle serviced by someone other than the dealer could void your warranty and poses a safety risk. Cooking animal products at home poses a health risk. You should be sure to only ever consume animal products prepared by a duly licensed establishment. The chauffeur's union would like to take this opportunity to remind you that amateurs operating their own motor vehicles risk serious injury and even death. The FSD alliance would like to point out that hiring a licensed chauffeur also poses a non-negligible risk. Should you choose to make use of a personal vehicle it is strongly recommended that you select one certified by the FSD alliance. Failure to do so could potentially impact your health insurance premium. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | franga2000 a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In fact there is a lot factually incorrect. For starters, in most places, warranty is a legal requirement and the manufacturer isn't allowed to void it for whatever reason they want. If my phone's battery starts getting really hot in normal use, or I start getting dead pixels on my screen or whatever else, the fact I have a custom OS on my phone isn't relevant to the warranty claim any more than having it in a case or putting some stickers on it. Yes, it'll make claiming it more difficult, but that doesn't mean it's void, just that you'll have to fight through a few more tiers of support agents to get it fixed. More importantly, rooting is only a security risk in the sense that it increases the attack surface for exploits. The same can be said for any other system-level software. Like if you buy an Nvidia graphics card in your computer and that loads its kernel driver, malware now has one more place to exploit. Are Nvidia graphics cards a security risk? We've come an incredibly long way from just dropping /xbin/su and calling it a day. Modern (as in the last 10 years) root solutions have caller checks based on a user-defined whitelist and really modern implementations use kernel-level checks to make sure the app wanting root access is allowed to get it. The only way this can be dangerous is if one of those apps or the root solution itself has a code execution exploit. But again, the same can be said for the plethora of system-level bloatware vendors install these days. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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