Re:Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
by lucb1e on Thursday September 29, 2016 @03:30PM
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Wait, they did that? That's like blocking anyone from playing any games when they have the administrator password to their computers. Being very pro-rooting (for independence reasons, how do you "own" a device that you don't have access to?) this is a good reason to boycott the game on any phone.
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Re:Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
by makomk on Thursday September 29, 2016 @04:21PM
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Yeah, they did that using a very aggressive Google-provided tool called SafetyNet designed exactly for that purpose, which downloads a program from Google's servers and runs it with system-level privileges to do the checks.