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OnePlus Phones Come Preinstalled With a Factory App That Can Root Devices (bleepingcomputer.com)
Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: Some OnePlus devices, if not all, come preinstalled with an application named EngineerMode that can be used to root the device and may be converted into a fully-fledged backdoor by clever attackers. The app was discovered by a mobile security researcher who goes online by the pseudonym of Elliot Alderson -- the name of the main character in the Mr. Robot TV series. Speaking to Bleeping Computer, the researcher said he started investigating OnePlus devices after a story he saw online last month detailing a hidden stream of telemetry data sent by OnePlus devices to the company's servers.
No longer you have to tinker around and find an app you can install to root your device, now you can root it out of the box, delete the app to root it and you have a rooted device.
And even one where OnePlus cannot complain about you voiding your warranty by rooting it. Because who said you did it and not some malicious actor, using what they themselves handed to him?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Going from the Nexus4 running LineageOS to a Nexus6P, I stopped rooting. Stock Android had become "good enough" for what I wanted and the only thing I was "missing" was arrow keys in the navbar to move the cursor, which you're now able to turn on through ADB.
But yeah, reading the headline I thought it was describing a feature, not a complaint. I was thinking "that sure is convenient that they can just press a 'be rooted' button in an app and not need to use a PC"
This is what the owners of these phones WANT!
They want full ownership over their device. Take you sensationalist bullshit and fuck off.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?