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seszett a day ago

That's what I do too (not iOS + GrapheneOS but the result is the same) as I was tired of fighting to make my bank apps and itsme (digital identity app in Belgium) work on my rooted phone.

Everytime I have to use a stock phone I'm appalled at the ads and I have absolutely no trust in any US or Chinese manufacturer. So I use them only for banking and digital id because that's presumably not what they actually care about.

It's not that expensive, I think many people have an old Android phone lying around, it doesn't have to be up to date.

fph a day ago | parent | next [-]

It is very ironic that the solution is using an old, insecure phone full of unpatched holes for all important banking and id business, because that one is vendor-allowed while your state-of-the-art GrapheneOS is not.

StrLght a day ago | parent [-]

If only banks cared about state-of-the-art security.

In reality, banks couldn’t care less. They only care about checking boxes and don’t consider where these boxes come from; every unchecked box is a risk.

Did the latest sham "security audit" say that root is bad? They'll block it.

tetris11 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

My job's SSO moved to provider that either required an unrooted phone or a reliable Voice auth.

For 2 years the voice authentication worked fine (they call me, I type in a number) on my regular rooted phone. Then one random morning I just stopped getting the phone calls. "Network said no".

Complete lock out, nothing I could do except go out and panic-buy an unrooted phone not running Lineage and using a modern Android version. (I tried my older unofficial lineage phones without root, and no dice.)

I opted for a good phone I could postmarket later, but gosh did it set me back almost 1/5 of my monthly salary.

WhyNotHugo a day ago | parent [-]

This does sounds like the situation where the employer should provide you with the phone.

GreenVulpine a day ago | parent [-]

Indeed. Never spend your own money on work related expenses. If your job requires a phone, they need to provide one.