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minus-squareTheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·4 years agoThe only way is to buy a phone without Qualcomm processors, that leaves the option of poor Exynos, or the much better Mediatek and Kirin chips.
minus-squarebrombek@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 years agoYeah, until someone looks at their “security” :D
minus-squareTheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-24 years agoWell, these Black Hat guys do look at the security of non Qualcomm devices, it seems. https://github.com/secmob/TiYunZong-An-Exploit-Chain-to-Remotely-Root-Modern-Android-Devices/raw/master/us-20-Gong-TiYunZong-An-Exploit-Chain-to-Remotely-Root-Modern-Android-Devices.pdf Go to page 5 of PDF
The only way is to buy a phone without Qualcomm processors, that leaves the option of poor Exynos, or the much better Mediatek and Kirin chips.
Yeah, until someone looks at their “security” :D
Well, these Black Hat guys do look at the security of non Qualcomm devices, it seems.
https://github.com/secmob/TiYunZong-An-Exploit-Chain-to-Remotely-Root-Modern-Android-Devices/raw/master/us-20-Gong-TiYunZong-An-Exploit-Chain-to-Remotely-Root-Modern-Android-Devices.pdf
Go to page 5 of PDF