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What is a red herring? It's just not perceived by the public to be an issue. If it was, it would be legislated just like car manufacturers are forced to carry
by jojobas 6y ago
What is a red herring? It's just not perceived by the public to be an issue.
If it was, it would be legislated just like car manufacturers are forced to carry parts for a number of years for every produced car.
- mindslight 6y agoThe narrative that "razor thin" devices preclude repair. If I had the manufacturer's documentation, the problem with my S4 could likely be fixed with just a USB cable. Its physical form has nothing to do with its general lack of repairability.
- jojobas 6y agoThey don't preclude repair but definitely make it harder to make modular, user serviceable devices. Software repair is a different story of course, but it's another double-edged sword- you wouldn't like your phone's memory to be fully accessible with just a USB cable. I can't imagine a mechanism that would only allow USB tampering only if the phone is malfunctioning.
- freeone3000 6y agoYour phone's memory effectively is fully accessible with just a USB cable. I am unaware of any android phone which actually verifies the signature on its bootloader - run `adb fastboot flash` and you can load arbitrary ROMs onto arbitrary chips. The contents of the ROMs is what's secret.
- jiggunjer 6y agoYou'll need more than a USB cable if you've bricked it, even fastboot won't be accessible.
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- Nextgrid 6y ago> you wouldn't like your phone's memory to be fully accessible with just a USB cable Use cryptographic authentication then, with a password/key provided to you when you buy the phone?