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This will delight the one person in ten thousand who wants to jailbreak their own phone, and the border police in Australia (mandatory scans of phone required o
by rodgerd 7y ago
This will delight the one person in ten thousand who wants to jailbreak their own phone, and the border police in Australia (mandatory scans of phone required on demand), or China, or stalkerware retailers, or repair shops who like to rat around on customers' phones.
Guess which will be the more common use?
- fourthark 7y agoReboot your phone if you know you have given it to someone you don't trust.
- rodgerd 7y agoThis is a persistent compromise. That will not help.
- tptacek 7y agoNo, it's exactly not that.
- Operyl 7y agoEven the title says "Tethered." It's far from persistent.
- skinnymuch 7y agoThe title says tethered
- heavyset_go 7y agoYou can already assume that states are sitting on exploits that they've found or bought, and that they can compel companies to provide some form of access via NSLs or secret courts.
- randyrand 7y agoonly more advanced states.
- heavyset_go 7y agoNah, anyone with a pile of money can buy exploits and hire professionals to discover them. Kingdoms in the desert have had access to root certificates for almost a decade now.