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Your bank loses money when keyloggers/etc are used. Play integrity claims to avoid this problem, and a rooted device with an alternative ROM is a big red flag.
by brookst 2y ago
Your bank loses money when keyloggers/etc are used. Play integrity claims to avoid this problem, and a rooted device with an alternative ROM is a big red flag.
There are nuances here and there are probably ways app developers could support legit Graphene but not a malicious fork, but that’s a lot of work and expertise to reach an extra 0.01% of the population.
- protimewaster 2y agoI understand the idea, but GrapheneOS doesn't even provide any kind of official support for rooting. It's not that they're checking to see if the device is rooted, they're just checking to see if it has Google's checkmark. Meanwhile, rooted devices can pass Play Integrity (since they can spoof all the necessary bits via root).
- brookst 2y agoIsn’t play integrity based on PKI and hardware root of trust? How does a rooted device fake the signed ROM / bootloader / etc?
- protimewaster 2y agoI haven't read about it too much since I'm not rooted, but lots of users report being able to use apps that require integrity with various root approaches (e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/Magisk/comments/19c1dv0/help_can_i_pass_the_playintegrity_strong/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Magisk/comments/19c1dv0/help_can_i_...)
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> Your bank loses money when keyloggers/etc are used. Play integrity claims to avoid this problem, and a rooted device with an alternative ROM is a big red flag. Well... no? Maybe a device with things running as root is a yellow flag, but malware isn't going to replace the ROM or install a normal user-controlled root solution. Or put differently, if your "security" system flags the latest version of Lineage OS but doesn't flag a year-old stock ROM with known CVEs, then your system is actively fighting against security.