• RovingFox@infosec.pub
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          11 months ago

          Those usually are made to persist after factory reset. The phone is rooted and factory reset is modified to not remove the bad software.

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            11 months ago

            And rooting the phone requires an unlocked bootloader, which would present a warning when the phone is booted up.

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                11 months ago

                Yes it will. There’s no way to bypass it, if there is, that would be a serious security flaw - the kind that would get patched very quickly. There have been some phones which had a vulnerable bootloader that allowed this in the past (eg: OnePlus devices), but there’s no such exploit available for current generation devices

                I’d like to see some sources backing up your claim, which is applicable to current generation phones.