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>users themselves are disallowed from rooting their phones What? how's that possible?

• dathinab 5y ago
  In practice, not by law. Or at least often not by law, there are some stupid laws around WiFi/broadband etc. which can be interpreted to state that it's not allowed for a phone to be sold which can be rooted (without a hack) as the user could use it to setup a WiFi hot-spot which uses non-legal frequencies. This law was made because supposedly that (with routers) is a problem, except it isn't as far as I know and it as pure lobby work from a certain industry which also loves the user to be forced to use their routers. (PS: Also country dependent.)