You want the honest answer? Because security consultants slapped that on some checklist and Heathrow will now bugger contractors that build Android app to impl

You want the honest answer? Because security consultants slapped that on some checklist and Heathrow will now bugger contractors that build Android app to implement root checks. Enterprise apps are full of this bs. I partially blame Google because it made checking for integrity so easy that every app owner now things it needs to use it.