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    [–] rush@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    There's other reasons to use Magisk for this instead, like not having a VPN slot free or wanting to use another DNS Server

    [–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Sure, but rooting your phone fundamentally destroys the security model https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/android.html#rooting

    [–] rush@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    I know.

    Not only have I written about this before on related forums, but also have I talked and partially written about the AVBRoot Project and others which bring root access closer to the Android security model.

    [–] Dehydrated@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

    Your project sounds great, but it only addresses one part of the issue. But verified boot is far from the only security concept broken by root. Android uses the principal of least privilege (which makes a lot of sense, it's actually used by a lot software). With root, a user-installed app runs with higher privileges than most parts of the entire operating system.