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Why don't banks like root on Android? (lemmy.world)
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[-] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I can't believe I'm saying this, but thank God my country developers are incompetent.

I was greeted with this message:"This app can't be used on a rooted device" And I was prepared to go through hoops to get it to work. you know, fucking safetynet and all. But it turns out that the solution was just enabling zygist on Magisk.

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 points 6 months ago

My bank app had this and i had to go through quite a lot of hoops. Then i didn't have root for a while (new phone) and when i got root again i also only needed to enable zygist for it to work. So i guess they changed it?

[-] 520@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Zygist is a way of hiding the fact that you have root access . Likely your bank changed absolutely nothing.

[-] SaltyIceteaMaker@iusearchlinux.fyi 4 points 6 months ago

Well zygist didn't work before so i thing the did change something, wich is also likely cause it seems like they redid the whole app

[-] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

Or maybe the magisk devs made it more sophisticated.

[-] ByGourou@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

Same, hiding root from my bank app was easy, no safetynet needed.

But their NFC phone payment was something else. I had to use safetynet and google play integrity fix with fingerprint that need to be renewed and other bullshit. I sent my phone in a boot loop too because the latest version had a bug for my specific phone ...

[-] piracysails@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

What does zygist do?

[-] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's just a technique that prevents selected apps from knowing that you have root access instead of just denying them the privileges.

[-] piracysails@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Thank you!

[-] nolight@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

I was disappointed they didn't actually restrict the app for router devices.

[-] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

yeah.... in a way I was both happy and disappointed

[-] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

You legend

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

Lmao, same.
I am both happy and slightly worried. Hapied?

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