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by bitwize 1402 days ago
Bankers and governments don't want your phone to be a general purpose computer. That's why you can't run your banking app on a rooted phone. From a security standpoint, "general purpose computing" is really just "arbitrary code execution" -- generally a bad thing.

We are approaching the sunset of general purpose computing in the consumer space. There's nothing you can do. Accept it and move on.
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kube-system 1402 days ago
“General purpose computing” does not imply any particular security model, it refers to a device with a variety of end user purposes.

It is in contrast to a special purpose computer, which smartphones clearly are not.

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GekkePrutser 1401 days ago
> We are approaching the sunset of general purpose computing in the consumer space. There's nothing you can do. Accept it and move on

I agree that governments and big business (not just banks, think about media services with DRM) don't want us to have full control of our computers for many reasons.

I disagree we just have to accept it though. I will keep fighting that forever.

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