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dpacmittaltoday at 6:25 AM1 replyview on HN

Bank apps in India don't run on rooted phones, need developer mode and adb disabled. At the same time, their website works fine on Firefox on Linux where I can literally go through all their front-end source, attach and run debuggers.

What even is going on? Why are banks doing this security theatre when all their apps are doing is calling some backend apis?


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ulrikrasmussentoday at 6:49 AM

I think most bank apps in the western world also refuse to run on rooted phones. To my pleasant surprise my banking app worked on GrapheneOS though.