Re:The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from usin...
by concinds on Saturday January 10, 2026 @04:06AM
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> My line of thinking is that if someone is technical enough to root his phone he understands the risks.
That is a terrible assumption. I had a rooted phone when I was 12 to pirate games. Friends asked me to root theirs. Rooting isn’t hard and lots of people do it (absolute not relative terms)
And the idea that so-called “technical” people know what they’re doing and are hack-proof is hot garbage machismo BS. Modern attacks use social engineering and extremely technical people fall for it all the time. There were several stories on here just this week.
That is a terrible assumption. I had a rooted phone when I was 12 to pirate games. Friends asked me to root theirs. Rooting isn’t hard and lots of people do it (absolute not relative terms)
And the idea that so-called “technical” people know what they’re doing and are hack-proof is hot garbage machismo BS. Modern attacks use social engineering and extremely technical people fall for it all the time. There were several stories on here just this week.