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Thanks for explaining!

• hunter2_ 7y ago
  And the "not customarily wiped" partitions are not wiped because they are not customarily writable in the first place. Rooting a phone by a prominent manufacturer requires discovering an exploit which overcomes this write protection. This is why manufacturers try to protect against exploits, and why you probably shouldn't use a second-hand phone that has known exploits, where second-hand means touched by basically anyone in even a seemingly-legitimate supply chain.
  • mindslight 7y ago
    > you probably shouldn't use a second-hand phone that has known exploits, where second-hand means touched by basically anyone Clearly unpublished exploits are also bad, meaning this essentially applies to every phone. That's a pitfall of the closed security paradigm - even if you are willing to trust the manufacturer, you still can't be sure that their control has not actually been usurped by some unknown third party. So you either need to double down and choose the closed system that receives the highest scrutiny (Apple), or opt for a device that has been opened by the community for long enough that any stateful hiding places are known.