• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      And that’s all assuming the few OEMs that still have unlocked bootloaders will continue to do so.

      It wouldn’t surprise me if Google starts requiring locked bootloaders in some future version of Android in the name of “security”.

      • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        6 months ago

        being able to lock your bootloader should be a bare minimum requirement. what’s the point of pushing security updates if all that can be bypassed by tampering with the firmware?

        OEMs are just too lazy to spend the extra bucks on the cryptography chips and they don’t let you relock the bootloader because they are conservative in their approach to security