Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your device without a passcode

Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by vurpo on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @07:30AM (#15226421)

Many Android devices, including all the ones that Google make and sell themselves, Sony devices, Motorola devices, have an officially supported path to running any code you want on YOUR own device.

Usually that path is: boot the phone into bootloader mode, plug it into a computer, run `fastboot oem unlock`, accept the warning that this will void your warranty, then `fastboot flash <image file to flash>`. An officially documented and supported way to do exactly what you want with the device that you own.

Yes, it voids your warranty, but it's not forbidden or illegal in any way.

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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by pdimitar on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @11:26AM (#15228044)

Sure. That's why Magisk exists, right? Because OEMs have nothing against you rooting your device. At all. They are perfectly okay with it.

Please. Actions speak louder than words, I am sure you would agree with that.

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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by lern_too_spel on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @12:30PM (#15228699)

We were discussing Google devices and Apple devices. All Google phones have an unlockable bootloader.

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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by pdimitar on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @05:09PM (#15232742)

Unlockable bootloader, yes. Officially supported ROM without Google Play Services, absolutely not.

I see you defending Google around here. That's fine but a grand-grand-grand...-parent of yours was saying that AOSP is unusable, and that point still stands and is true.

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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by lern_too_spel on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:47AM (#15236302)

You've confused yourself. The whole point of a device being yours is that you can install not officially supported ROMs.

The officially supported experience with Google Play Services is no more privacy invasive than the officially supported iOS ROM, but in the case of Google devices, the device is yours, and you are not limited to officially supported ROMs.

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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by komali2 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @01:21PM (#15229231)

By google devices, do you mean only the Pixel and Nexus phones? Or does that include all android devices? Because for example Sprint Galaxy s5's can't be unlocked.

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Re:Under iOS 11, authorities won’t be able to image your dev... by lern_too_spel on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:48AM (#15236308)

I mean devices sold by Google, so Nexuses, Pixels, and a few Google experience phones sold from the Google Store.

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