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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by fph on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:04PM (#46556882)
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.
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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by StrLght on Friday January 09, 2026 @04:26PM (#46559586)
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.

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