12 reasons to avoid rooting your Android phone at all costs - and the only time I break the rules

ZDNET's key takeaways Rooting or jailbreaking a phone isn't as hard as it once was.The process does involve considerable risk ...
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Poll: Who's running a rooted smartphone?

Google puts a lot of time into thinking about Android security, and has developed systems like the way the OS handles app permissions in order to give us control over how software gets to see our data ...