Comment by agile-gift0262
5 days ago
I think root is precisely what most of these apps are trying to avoid. They think (at least the finance app I used to work for thought) that with root, user credentials the app stored would be accessible by whatever uses those root permissions and they didn't want the risk
> I think root is precisely what most of these apps are trying to avoid.
Maybe, but it's necessary when you want to modify some aspect of the system you disagree with. For example, Android has a mechanism that prevents the user, the owner of the phone, from snapping a screenshot of an app he can see with his own eyes. Those kinds of limitations are enraging, and are just one example of why root is needed if the user is to truly own the device.
Well yes, that's exactly the sort of the thing banking apps would want to prevent. Android also blocks overlays on banking apps to prevent a whole class of attacks.