I waited to root and decided on Kingo, I was happy with the phone unrooted so I OTA updated to mj4. Having read a statement from Samsung addressing the fact that the mj4 update was actually a response to the de la Vega exploit, I figured there wasn't going to be a way to root with vega at any point soon having mj4. But I did want to start using rooted apps, I wanted to not trip Knox if I could, but I would have been okay with tripping it if I needed to in order to root.
I was worried about the security risk with kingo, but this is how I look at it. They need the information to make sure it's rooted correctly, it's all automatic, so I would assume it's not anything new.
If for some reason if they were stealing imei numbers, I don't think there would be any point to cloning a sprint phone in Asia. I searched really well, I did not find one person that said. "OMG my phone has been HAXORED!"
Considering the fact that they were even on this forum and went through the effort to try and apologize shows that if one person has any problem whatsoever, their goose is cooked.
if you do decide to use kingo because you're mj4, you may have to try a few times, I did it on a laptop running xp.
I haven't flashed anything yet but I think there's something called "safestrap" that's supposed to allow you to flash without tripping Knox, haven't looked too much into it.
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