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Re:FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware ... by Suppafly on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @03:54PM (#41504826)
>But my digitally incompetent bank doesn't allow me to use a good phone to run a banking app, because it doesn't allow rooting devices.

Honestly part of that is the fault of the OS itself. If shouldn't allow apps to tell if the phone is rooted or not. Unless I'm asking the app to do something that requires root, the app shouldn't have any ability to tell that it's on a rooted device.

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Re:FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware ... by raxxorraxor on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @02:40AM (#41508628)
Agreed. It is part of corporate ambitions to verify devices. We see that with remote attestation too. Again security theatre and a mechanism that doesn't serve the user.
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