Android Pay does not work with rooted smartphones

Recently launched in the USA, AndroidPay It will probably come to Europe later. A very practical mobile payment system that works over NFC. However, like any mobile payment system, it requires some prerequisites such as security. The reason why unfortunately it will not be compatible with rooted smartphones.

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As we have seen before, Android Pay is designed in such a way that all transactions are secure and all the steps inherent in the transaction via mobile are tightly controlled. Shortly after the service’s launch, several XDA users have repeatedly noticed that they cannot use it on a rooted smartphone.

It is of course possible to install the app and save a payment card, but unfortunately it no longer works when it’s time to pay. Meanwhile, One of Google’s security engineers People working at Android Pay intervened in the discussion on XDA to verify the information:

With Android Pay, we work with payment servers and banks to tokenize your card information for merchants (…) I know many of you are “expert users”, but we don’t have the tools to apply the security nuances to our payments ecosystem on a developer’s smartphone and whether you can personally guard against attacks we don’t know.

In summary, if Android Pay doesn’t work with root, as you can imagine, it’s for security reasons. It is not impossible for hackers to find a solution to this or that blocking. Google itself is reversing its position if root and security find a way to coexist, but in the meantime, it would be a huge disappointment for rooted users.

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