| ▲ | ozim a day ago | |
My grandma should not have root on her phone and a lot of younger people as well. Making it easy to root phone makes it easy for scammers to ask people to unlock it. It should not void warranty if you unlock the phone. But security concerns are real. Mobile banking apps refuse to run on rooted phones. | ||
| ▲ | poisonborz a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
The same people can be scammed to give passwords, click links, perform any human action, so what's the difference besides giving up yet another freedom? | ||
| ▲ | const_cast 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> My grandma should not have root on her phone and a lot of younger people as well. I would agree. > Making it easy to root phone makes it easy for scammers to ask people to unlock it. I would also agree, so then: don't make it easy. > Mobile banking apps refuse to run on rooted phones. ... but they do run on my web browser. On a computer using open-source software without even secure boot enabled. So, it seems to me this is a cop-out by said banks. They shouldn't require client-side absolute trust to run, and evidently they actually, practically, today, do not require that. It's simply a choice they made, presumably out of laziness or greed. | ||