I wrote a piece about Android 7 and its certificate authority system. Now that Android 7.1 has been released, most of the problems I predicted turn out to be nothing.
I've noticed over the past weeks I've been using Xubuntu more than I have been using Windows. Why though?
In this article I will cover some details about the way Android 7 "Nougat" treats user-installed certificate authorities. Android 7 improved security in many ways. However, this has several downsides... As an added bonus, I describe a way to install a certificate authority in Android 7 using root access.