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

Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by barbazoo on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:49PM (#46558358)

Many of us would need the unmodified one to have a working SIM because a lot of those providers require SMS in their auth flow. Expensive for many of us. For me it'll mean I have to do these things on a computer. Until they come for that one too of course.

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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by craftkiller on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:48PM (#46559129)

Don't they usually SMS you a TOTP code that you could then just type into the unmodified one? I've seen some apps that snoop on your SMS to automatically grab the TOTP code but I've never come across one that wouldn't let you manually type it in.

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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by Helmut10001 on Saturday January 10, 2026 @01:00AM (#46563190)

I use the eSim feature in my iPhone, this worked well.

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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by barbazoo on Saturday January 10, 2026 @01:34PM (#46568560)

Do you mean you have the same esim on both phones but normally activated on the burner phone except when you need it on the unmodified one w/o access to burner phone?

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Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin... by Helmut10001 on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:31AM (#46575606)

I can have multiple free esims with my operator. Since I have my auth-phone in airplane most of the time, I don't care about two ringing phones (or the small privacy caveat that comes with sharing the same phone number across multiple devices).

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