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by yjftsjthsd-h 1907 days ago
> Ironically, devices which haven't had security fixes in 1 year (thanks for nothing, Sony) will also pass safetynet, and the mentioned apps' vendors will still deem them "secure".

Yeah, that's what always got me - they'll act like rooting your phone or installing a custom ROM makes it "insecure", but then turn around and act like a phone is secure running an arbitrarily old stock ROM that's little more than a pile of known vulnerabilities. I even hit this with a company I worked for - they could not grasp the idea that my phone with a current patch level could possibly be safe, because I had root on it... while seeing no problem with my having root on my company laptop and all of our servers. Yeesh.