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> Android has gotten way better at having phones with the stock OS locked down hard eeeeerm, no. It didn't get better at all. It basically wiped out a vibrant

• ufmace 5y ago
  Not sure what you mean there. I'm saying that one is a necessary consequence of the other. If you want to have your phone really locked down tight such that it won't give up everything to anyone who connects a USB cable to it and has a few clever tools, it's inevitably going to be tough to do things like load third-party ROMs and root the phone. And it's going to be really tough to do any of those things and also maintain that security against hostile physical access. Did you install a custom bootloader to load your ROM and root apps? Cool, but as a consequence of that, anyone who connects a USB cable to your phone can get into anything in it. Does it supposedly have security? Wanna bet the quality of any security in a homemade app vs Google's best efforts?