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From a security standpoint, allowing a user root access means allowing others to modify the underlying filesystem without validation. This means things like Sam
by knaik94 11y ago
From a security standpoint, allowing a user root access means allowing others to modify the underlying filesystem without validation. This means things like Samsung Pay become vulernable. Tripping the Knox counter is the only way to ensure that the software hasn't been modified by a malicious party. The majority that enjoys using Samsung Pay is a bigger than the minority that benefits from rooting. While the reasons you state are a probably factor, I think security is the biggest reason for the bit.
- tempestn 11y agoRight, which is why they can go ahead and trip it when you root, but there should be a way to completely factory reset, including resetting Knox. That said, we manage to make credit card payments online via rooted devices all the time, so I'm not sure the idea holds water that payments via a rooted device are completely impossible. (Still, I can certainly see that it might not be worth their time. The factory reset shouldn't be very difficult though.)
- tluyben2 11y agoApple their bricking last week and this is very much because of the liability shift October last year. If manufacturers cannot show their equipment is safe the merchant pays for the fraud which means merchants will not accept those means of payment as a result.