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I think the main issue here is that resellers may modify perfectly fine phones to include adware. This was pretty common with eBay resellers of xiaomi phones a
by panpanna 7y ago
I think the main issue here is that resellers may modify perfectly fine phones to include adware. This was pretty common with eBay resellers of xiaomi phones a while back untill xiaomi stepped in and added some method to verify device integrity.
I assume same thing could happen on iOS if one could find a way to make the adware to survive system updates.
- ljf 7y agoExactly this - I bought a Xiaomi Mi Note Pro and found is was packed with malware - I went to the Xiaomi site and got the right ROM and all was good - it was obviously the reseller who stuck it on. The issue was the malware was pretty ropey looking, it was easy to spot - if they had been cleverer I wouldn't have guessed or updated the phone...
- panpanna 7y agoI feel the device should refuse to register a new user from anything but the clean state. This is pretty straightforward on modern hardware. If any Google engineers are reading this: maybe something to consider for Android 11?