Mobile
Rooting your Android phone? Google’s rumbled you again
Reported by theregister.co.uk
Google’s crackdown on rooted Android devices continues. Citing security reasons, Google doesn’t want rooted ‘Droid phones to use mobile payments via the Android Pay infrastructure.
This is a standard not required by Pay’s predecessor, the now-deprecated Google Wallet.
In turn, this has led to a cat-and-mouse game with Android’s substantial global enthusiast community. Now a door that modders opened slightly a few months ago has been slammed shut.
