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What does “tampered with” mean? Particularly in the context of a device you own? I would consider a device tampered with if someone besides me (the owner) did
by williamscales 4y ago
What does “tampered with” mean? Particularly in the context of a device you own?
I would consider a device tampered with if someone besides me (the owner) did something with it, without my authorization. But anything short of that is surely just me using the device. I mean, I have physical possession after all.
- hparadiz 4y agoSigning images and requiring that the bootloader can't flash anything else is just vendor lock in / ceding your power as an end user. It doesn't make you more secure in any way since a bad actor will figure out a way to bypass making writes to the system partition.
- moonchrome 4y agoUmm I remember ordering Chinese phones way back when (think android 4) with unlocked boot loaders - both had some random junk installed via custom ROM and you couldn't uninstall it.
- tremon 4y agoIt's a good thing they had unlocked boot loaders then, or you would not have had any option to remove the malware.