Re:Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, incl...
by ale42 on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:38AM
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Of course they pass system integrity. The whole point of the thing is not "it should be secure", it's "the user has not messed with it so we control it".
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Re:Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, incl...
by Muromec on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:42AM
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Well, yes? The law says that the bank should do the thing and the bank does the thing to the best of it's ability, given what people usually work there.
Re:Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, incl...
by Sayrus on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:46AM
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> the bank does the thing to the best of it's ability
No they don't. At best, they do a cost-effective proxy for what should be done.
Re:Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, incl...
by Muromec on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:57AM
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Oh, you have no idea. It's not even about costs. In a 200 year old company the level of corporate disfunction and the average skill level of people is something else entirely. Nothing ever happens unless the regulator holds a blowtorch wired to a timer to the CEO's ass.
Re:Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, incl...
by Borealid on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:11AM
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If the device is "insecure", doesn't that mean you - as a user - can exploit one of those insecurities to "mess with" the device without system integrity being aware?
Or are you saying the device is insecure BUT has no local privilege escalations you can take advantage of as a user?
Re:Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, incl...
by Muromec on Friday November 06, 2026 @09:39AM
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It could have RCE but not privilige escalation. But I don't buy it, because 5 years without kernel patches is at least 5 escalation exploits being written by the an llm in 5 minutes