[tombrossman]

Here's a link to a more complete explanation from the primary developer of GrapheneOS: https://teddit.net/r/GrapheneOS/comments/du23la/rooted_or_ro...

Basically, you don't log in to your Linux box (or Windows, Mac, etc) as root for day to day use and same thing goes for your phone.

[robbedpeter]

Rooting your phone means you obtain root access to the device, bypassing carrier restrictions. It does not mean you run it as root user day to day. That would indeed be insecure.

Rooting is not incompatible with security. Trusting carrier distributed software on a locked down device is far less secure than using a custom install of something like Calyx or GrapheneOS.

In my view, trusting Google, Apple, Verizon, t-mobile, or at&t is incompatible with security.

The idea that people having administrative access to their own devices is inherently insecure is vicious anti-consumer nonsense.

[hansel_der]

well put.

thou for non-technical users, rooting a phone is a bit like going back to windows xp.