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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (16 children)

As someone who uses root (not at the moment but plans to) as I believe in owning my devices, fully, this is horrible. We still need to oppose this.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I know right? The article touches on this:

Google said the inspiration for the original Web Integrity project was Android's Play Integrity API, which already scans your phone for root privileges and denies access to things

^^^ this should have never, ever been a thing!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is just standard and a completely sensible security measure for preventing people from tampering with an application. It cannot replace proper, server-side security measures but is a big step. Especially for stuff like banking applications.

[–] BaldDude 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never really understood that:

If I'm using my browser to do banking via the website, Having root privileges and tampering with the Browser running the applications is not an issue.

If i use the banking app, Having root privileges suddenly become a problem.

--> To me, it doesn't look like the problem is technical, but that users are accepting things on mobile that they wouldn't accept on a PC.

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