Re:Ask HN: How to maintain an identical "hot standby" Androi...
by patrakov on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @01:11PM
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Metrobank (for business customers) in the Philippines. Regular customers of the same bank have a different app with less strictness.
And yes, root hiding works on a test phone (which has a copy of the app not linked to my bank account), and the TOTP seed can be extracted from memory using Fridump and imported into a different app. But obviously, this won't pass the "manual inspection of the phone" step, because they will likely find the renamed Magisk app.
Re:Ask HN: How to maintain an identical "hot standby" Androi...
by user_7832 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @04:46PM
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Thanks, that's very interesting that a business account in the Philippines has so much security. I think if a bank tried that here in Europe (inspecting phones) folks wouldn't like the privacy intrusion. Though, I think apps can be hidden from the launcher (and perhaps also the settings app with some more effort)?
I still wonder if with something like a root hiding thing like grapheneOS’s software this could be “overcome”.