With Samsung's e-Fuse (Knox) basically as soon as thats tripped either rooting, flashing modified rom - it basically renders all secure access features broken and unrepairable which amounts to No more finger-print scanner, No more samsung pay, no more Knox environment.
Damn,
hopefully nexus does not take that approach, its hard to imagine they would given the kind of people that like nexus
as far as I am concerned, a fresh flash of a firmware image leaves any former security concerns in the dust. Sure leave the efuse tripped, but that doesnt mean the integrity of the software is damaged forever, very silly.
Funny how the tables have flipped and Apple is easier on the rooters over samsung now
For example, when jailbreaking you have no access whatsoever to the secure enclave, so no damage is done. I suppose since the iphone bootloader is always locked, perhaps unlocked bootloader does allow some kind of access to the enclave? That seems silly, just lock it down and dont let anyone touch the enclave, surely it is possible even with unlocked bootloader. The problem is moreso likely that samsung doesnt care and took the technically 'easy' way out
funny how you always have root access on windows PC's out of the box with fingerprint scanners and there are no issues. I wonder if this is done out of fear of lawsuits particularly because of their in house payment system?