alt Hacker NewsIt astounds me that purists still push this narrative despite all evidence to the country over decades of computing.
It is better for the vast majority of people that they don't have root access to their PC or phone or tablet because they are unequipped to securely manage that AND it has basically zero upside for them. They can't manage updates. They install random programs from the Internet to get smiley faces in Outlook.
This may offend your sensibilities. Sorry. But you're living in a fantasy land if you still hold onto this narrative, particularly without explaining to ordinary people how this will practically benefit them beyond theoretical platitudes about "freedom".
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If it's mandated that banking apps must not run in a user-controlled environment for the sake of security, users should have the right to refuse such "protection" by signing a piece of paperwork at the banks office.
So, let root access be opt-in rather than opt-out.
There's a difference between many people preferring not to have control over the device they own and it being illegal to have such control.
Yes, absolutely, most people would be better off not having that control and most of those people are also fine with not having it.
But everyone, for better or worse, has the right to demand that control if they want it.