Don’t see why this was removed. Though it does go right back to OP’s victim mentality.

Good point about root exploit. It’s a potential.

Thing is, every Linux server and windows box suffers the same risk… But we don’t hear “the sky is falling” about those… Because it’s considered a measured risk and security is layered. As it should be.

Hell, people still run windows laptops unencrypted today - which is far worse than an unlocked bootloader on Android.

Oh that’s cool to hear about. Neat!

From what I’ve read, that doesn’t really work - you’d need the encryption key, not the pin/password, because of how the encryption platform works.

Again, it’s been a while, and this isn’t my field. I just remember being properly surprised at how little I understood - that the pin/password are merely keys to accessing the encryption key, and it’s all tied together in validating during hoot. Like you can’t image the system and drop it in another phone if it’s been encrypted, even if you have the pin - the encryption system on the different hardware would calculate things incorrectly (I did this once, dropped an encrypted image on a duplicate phone. That was fun trying to figure out why it wouldn’t work).

There’s more to the puzzle that’s frankly above my pay grade, but last time I read about how to get into an encrypted phone, (even boot unlocked) required the expertise and tools of certain types of folks. Not your average “haxxor”.

Granted, that expertise and those tools are getting closer to us every day…

Lol, I can appreciate your commitment. We all have our white whales, mine are rear fingerprint and cordless charging. Edit: Also prefer as much plastic as possible. Make it lighter and less likely to break. I have a ceramic phone, it’s pretty (when it’s out of the case) but it’s heavy. So breakage is more likely to happen. I also have a Moto E5. You can throw it across the room.

I’ve had probably 5 times as many USB C port failures as I have micro ports… And I’ve had like 5 phones with micro (which needed charging all the time) and 2 with C. I do think C is better overall, but I don’t believe the durability claims. I already have a nice phone that really can’t be used for much since the C port died, and it’s part of the motherboard. Fortunately it has wireless, so I can use it for a spare device, just not a daily.

Whenever someone says it isn’t dead to them, it tells me they don’t realize most average consumers care about convenience most of all.

They (the average consumer - that is about 98% of them) don’t understand the tech, so have no way of forming an opinion or realizing why they may want a jack.

Or removeable batteries, etc. They’re easily swayed by shiny and seemingly “easy to use”.

It requires a flashed rom with a valid (key signature? Crap, forget what it’s called).

If you flash an unsigned kernel and try to boot lock, it’ll brick.

I get from an absolute security perspective why this is deemed important, I just feel there’s a bit too much focus on it, as if an unlocked bootloader is really that insecure. It would still take tremendous effort to get the encryption key for storage, so it’s pretty effectively secure still.

If you can’t see how you moved them, I can’t help you.

Nice comparisons. Will add that to my explanations.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Oh crap, you already done lost me in the second half there, but I’ll give the link a watch.

Thanks again!

I’ve worked with folks from around the world (including Central and South Americans), some can be touchy about it. Had to tell them “sorry, I, as an American, don’t define these terms. Blame Europeans, not me”.

“US”, “America”, “Americans” all have specific denotations… per EMEA, and hell, even Canadians.

It’s like nicknames - if you have one, you didn’t choose it. It was earned or applied by someone else.

Yawn.

Did you just finish Sophistry 101? Cause that’s all we’re hearing out of you.

I mean you’ve climbed up on the cross, and it looks like you’re even putting the nails in yourself.

Save some wood for Jesus.

Yea, that’s on the asswipe saying that. We get to meet them everywhere.

That description of American Colonists is exactly why there was a rebellion.

The English treated the colonists like second-class citizens, going so far as to try to get Ben Franklin to answer for things like the Tea Party, while he was in England, and a Loyalist.

The simplistic “rebelled over taxation” is just a representation of how the Crown and European Brits viewed and treated the colonists.

Colonists didn’t quit Britain, the Briton’s quit on the Colonists.

Got any more goalposts you’d like to move?

Half? No.

Closer to 98%.

Europeans are just as jingoistic as anyone else. And just as ignorant.

Let the arseholes bring their ideas into the light, so we know who they are and what they think.

Suppression is just a bad idea, and your naivete is terrifying.

Wow, that’s some of the most concrete, down-to-earth explanation of what everyone is calling AI. Thanks.

I’m technical, but haven’t found a good article explaining today’s AI in a way I can grasp well enough to help my non-technical friends and family. Any recommendations? Maybe something you’ve written?