banking and similar apps locking themselves down when they detect a jailbreak has got to be one of the more obnoxious threat modeling failures that exist

@halcy and like, on Android it was always just an issue of configuring Magisk Hide better

@noiob on ios you need to figure out which of the like 3 or 4 bypasses that exist at any given time works

but yeah, basically

@halcy yeah on Android its

  • repackage Magisk Manager under a random name
  • hide root from the app (and play services)
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@halcy and then there's Pokémon Go, which occasionally still detected root, and my health insurance app which refused to run after detecting root once

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