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Teach your rooted Android phones to lie to apps about whether it's rooted

There’s a funny paradox in rooting your Android phone. Once you take total control over your phone, some apps refuse to run, because they’re trying to do something that treats you as untrusted. Now there’s a utility called Rootcloak that lets you tell your rooted phone to lie to apps about whether it is rooted. It’s both long overdue and a neat demonstration of what it means to be root on a computer.

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