The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app

Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by varenc on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:16PM (#46556200)

I assume the bank apps have functionality that their websites lack. Like being able to tap to pay for things, etc. Where a rooted phone might make fraud easier. If not, then this really makes no sense.

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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by hirako2000 on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:33PM (#46556444)

Malware is more easily spread onto rooted phone, that's for sure.

From they you can keylog. Highjack input listeners, basically do anything you want.

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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by SkiFire13 on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:36PM (#46557329)

That's what a malware can do on a rooted phone, _once it gets root access_, but that doesn't mean a rooted phone is easier for malware to attack.

There's not even that many people using rooted phones, and many are tech savvy people that are generally a bit more careful, so even if a rooted phone gets infected by some malware chances are the malware won't even be written in such a way to try to obtain root permissions through the standard procedure and exploit it.

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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by eastbound on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:31PM (#46556416)

The only way an app can contact a company is through REST APIs.

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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by immibis on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:35PM (#46556487)

True. All internet packets are REST API packets - there's no other type of packet. And all cell radio traffic is internet packets (which are REST API packets).

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