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I would be more worried about a malicious app taking advantage of an exploit to compromise your phone and then reading your passwords without root having root b
by yareally 14y ago
I would be more worried about a malicious app taking advantage of an exploit to compromise your phone and then reading your passwords without root having root before on your device or without it asking for root permissions. There are known ways out there to get root access without actually unlocking via exploits.
- vetinari 14y agoExploits can be used to privilege escalation on all platforms, that's not Android specific thing. Adding to that, Android vendors are not that bad in fixing exploits. I had two devices (Sony phone and Asus tablet) that were always fixed before the exploit got widely known. I could not root them (yes, I wanted to do it without unlocking) if I updated as soon as the updates were available. With SEAndroid getting into stock Android, even that is going to be a thing of past.