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The Evil Update could just refuse to function if it's being used on a phone with a different IMEID. You wouldn't be able to remove the check without breaking th
by roywiggins 11y ago
The Evil Update could just refuse to function if it's being used on a phone with a different IMEID. You wouldn't be able to remove the check without breaking the signature, so it wouldn't be possible to use it to hack any other phone.
- 05 11y agoSure - until you realize IMEI is a baseband ID and you can desolder tha baseband IC and use it on all phones you need access to. Heck - you can probably just intercept and change the output of 'get IMEI' command - it's not like the communication between those chips is protected by crypto (only baseband firmware upgrade uses crypto)