Apps deliberately refusing to work on modded devices: Difference between revisions

Phones and PCs include a Trusted Platform Module <ref>{{Cite web |title=Trusted Platform Module |url=http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=pos1R1003970&aid=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803203400/http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=pos1R1003970&aid=1 |archive-date=2016-08-03}}</ref>: a chip independent from the device's CPU and can only run software signed by the device manufacturer. This chip allows applications to use a technique called remote attestation to detect if the operating system has been tampered in any way and in such a case block functionality or refuse to work altogether. If done properly remote attestation is impossible to spoof, even by the owner of the device.  

The owner of the phone is unable to do the following (while continue to use applications that block modded devices)

Since many businesses and governments require their customers to download their proprietary application to their phones in order to use their services (see [[Forced app download]]), and many of those applications refuse to work on a modded device, people are left unable to modify their phone as they wish, or else they wouldn't be able to interact with those businesses that require or heavily encourage their app.