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Fearmongering and FUD on security by short sighted and self serving technical folks on forums like this has got us to the point where backdoors and remote execu
by throw2016 8y ago
Fearmongering and FUD on security by short sighted and self serving technical folks on forums like this has got us to the point where backdoors and remote execution by 'trusted parties' are the norm while users root access to their own device is demonized as a security hole.
These are folks who are constantly 'empowering' themselves at the cost of others so getting root on your own phone is now thought of some sort of great security hole and some apps will detect it and refuse to work. This is the future of software freedom courtesy ex freedom and liberty poseurs and now greedy out of control tinpots.
- lima 8y agoAll of Google's own devices have an unlockable bootloader and you're free to install your own operating system (both on smartphones and chromebooks). That being said, rooting is a security hole - the PIN lock on most rooted phones can be trivially bypassed, and an application running as root can persistently and invisibly compromise the system (and bypass safeguards on things like Android Pay). The only non-Google Android fork which does not trivially compromise device security was Copperhead OS (now defunct) - they would ship devices with a locked bootloader and sign their updates, achieving a similar level of security (assuming a secure build system).