• RovingFox@infosec.pub
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            1 year ago

            Those usually are made to persist after factory reset. The phone is rooted and factory reset is modified to not remove the bad software.

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              1 year ago

              And rooting the phone requires an unlocked bootloader, which would present a warning when the phone is booted up.

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                  1 year ago

                  Yes it will. There’s no way to bypass it, if there is, that would be a serious security flaw - the kind that would get patched very quickly. There have been some phones which had a vulnerable bootloader that allowed this in the past (eg: OnePlus devices), but there’s no such exploit available for current generation devices

                  I’d like to see some sources backing up your claim, which is applicable to current generation phones.

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                    There’s no way to bypass it, if there is, that would be a serious security flaw

                    Those do happen, but it is probably also possible to unlock the boot loader and then replace the boot loader itself with one that merely pretends to be locked. How would you know the difference?

                    the kind that would get patched very quickly.

                    Obviously criminals aren’t going to install security patches for vulnerabilities that they are exploiting.