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Why don't banks like root on Android? (lemmy.world)
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[–] Spiralvortexisalie 6 points 6 months ago

As I understand it, the stated purpose is to prevent supply chain attacks and ultimately possible damage to their brand. In practice many of these same vendors ship their own spyware and do not want it removed.