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.

Hahaha

Hour of cardio? Maybe 2!😲

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…

Thanks for doing the leg work, I wasn’t sure where to start and figured I’d end up down a rabbit hole…too easily distracted!

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.

Starlink satellites deorbit on their own. What else is SpaceX leaving in orbit? (Serious question, maybe there are small components the launch systems lose?)

Exactly!

“You can’t out run a bad diet”.

Exercise helps, but once you do the math and see how many calories hard exercise consumes vs how easy it is to eat more calories, it becomes very clear.

Yep. When my infinity app stopped working a couple days ago I said I’m done.

Now if I want something from reddit I just let my search engine find the post I need. Then save it to OneNote (lots of Android, Pi, Windows stuff)