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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by tetris11 on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:07PM (#46556926)
My job's SSO moved to provider that either required an unrooted phone or a reliable Voice auth.

For 2 years the voice authentication worked fine (they call me, I type in a number) on my regular rooted phone. Then one random morning I just stopped getting the phone calls. "Network said no".

Complete lock out, nothing I could do except go out and panic-buy an unrooted phone not running Lineage and using a modern Android version. (I tried my older unofficial lineage phones without root, and no dice.)

I opted for a good phone I could postmarket later, but gosh did it set me back almost 1/5 of my monthly salary.

Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by WhyNotHugo on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:44PM (#46557433)
This does sounds like the situation where the employer should provide you with the phone.
Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by GreenVulpine on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:09PM (#46557789)
Indeed. Never spend your own money on work related expenses. If your job requires a phone, they need to provide one.