alt Hacker News> My opinion on this is that any method to check integrity, root access or if developer mode is enabled is a security vulnerability by itself, no such app should be able to know that.
I think knowledge of such information should be available to all apps, but I think apps should not be so annoyingly restrictive. There's absolutely no reason why games or generic apps need to act on any of this information.
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expedition32 • today at 12:06 PM
I advised my mother to do her banking on her phone instead of laptop.
Hardware attestation kills privacy- yes. But it also works.
Mobile phones are ridiculously locked down compared to legacy platforms such as Windows.
Realistically, in which scenario this information can be useful? I can't think of anything, it should be removed.
It's been misused by banking app and games, I've never seen a legitimate use case.