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Comment on ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones

mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Rooting is a terrible security risk and there’s no point in doing it. You won’t see the popular roms like GrapheneOS, /e/, or CalyxOS supporting it.

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Zuberi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lol this is the technology page and you’re going to try to make the argument to not root(/jailbreak) a phone?.. Genuinely lold

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- mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes…? You can have custom roms without sacrificing security. There’s genuinely no reason to root anymore.
  
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  - Zuberi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Can’t tell if troll or not
    
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    mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Can you use English words to explain why you think this is wrong, or are you just wasting internet bandwidth
    
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dsmk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What Asus broke here was the bootloader unlocking. Without that, there’s no custom ROMs or root. Root and bootloader unlocking mean different things.

Regarding root being a terrible security risk or not, I guess it will depend on the user? I never had any issues and only see it as one more thing that isn’t as safe as it could be… my bootloader is unlocked, the recovery isn’t stock, I’m running a custom ROM so I have to trust the developers/building process, etc.

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