Hello, I’m wandering if there is a rooting community on lemmy? Can someone please link me to it if it’s the case? Thx!
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I know there’s a lot security and privacy people on Lemmy. Rooting isn’t too privacy and security respecting so I know a lot of people recommend against it.
Rooting is the best way to ensure you have more privacy and security on your phone. Nobody listen to this guy cause they clearly have no idea what they are talking about.
You’re ignoring context. Yes, rooting let’s say, a stock OS on Android does give you more control, including things that can secure it more, but that doesnt change the fact that it does open holes for both physical and remote exploits that would go after system level changes. Thats not debatable, thats simply howba *nix/BSD based OS functions. Thats also ignoring that having the root acct enabled means leaving the bootloader unlocked which means no verified boot, anybody that attempts to claim thats not a gaping security issue has no place commenting on mobile phone security.
Thats why most *nix based OS’ starting disabling root accounts by default and want you to use sudo instead.
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Do you? A rooted phone is inherently less secure.
Its petrifying in a place geared towards privacy/security thats not common knowledge. People have zero clue how thier OS works.
Yes I do.
Rooting is one of the very few ways to still get security updates for older phones. Of course, you have to trust the release group but at least there is something.
That requires just unlocked bootloader, not root. In the distant past before full disk encryption you could often use root to replace the bootloader with a new one that doesn’t verify what OS it’s booting (so you could say that rooting was part of the process of changing ROM), but nowadays it’s very rare to be able to do that.
Now you either get a tool from your OEM to unlock your bootloader (and then you can flash ROMs to your heart’s desire), or you’re screwed.
That is actually a really good point, I was grouping all together. That being said, as other user mentioned, to debloat and do other things like having a system wide adblocker you do need root. There are of course rootless alternatives but having root is more persistent.
In the wrong hands, it can lead to bad results. Therefore, I agree with you, but the post does not ask “should I use root access?”.
No, we do not
