• mvilain@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    A long time ago, Google stopped doing updates on rooted phones. It’s why I stopped rooting my phone. Doing Android updates by reinstalling the latest release every couple months was a PITA. Also, Google finally got the Restore from last Backup working to the point that I didn’t have to rely on a backup utility that required rooting my phone. Ah, the early days of Android.

    Not being able to rely on RCS from rooted phones makes sense security-wise. You can’t trust what’s attached to that message. It could be a code injection hack.

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      10 months ago

      Not being able to rely on RCS from rooted phones makes sense security-wise. You can’t trust what’s attached to that message. It could be a code injection hack.

      It makes no sense at all security-wise. It is always a bad idea to rely on the security of a client that you don’t own or control.

      Your statement makes the assumptions that Google can detect every rooted device and there’s no possible other way to send RCS messages. Neither are true.