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0x000xca0xfetoday at 11:04 AM1 replyview on HN

I have an old $70 test device with stock Android/Google that hasn't seen security updates in half a decade yet all banking apps, electric car charging, Google services, you name it, work absolutely fine.

Meanwhile the daily driver phones of my privacy-aware family members running up-to-date Lineage or Graphene OS with recent kernels and frequent updates constantly run into apps refusing to work for "security" reasons. It's a complete joke.


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Gander5739today at 4:31 PM

To pass MEETS_STRONG_INTEGRITY a device needs to have a security patch within the last year. Most apps don't check for storng integrity, though.