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Re:System Hardening in Android 11 by zozbot234 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @07:46AM (#23700386)
> A device can be unlocked by anybody with physical access and the passcode. For example a malicious party could install a malicious version of Android on your device if they have unattended access to your phone for a while.

This wipes all existing data and notifies the user that the device is not secure whenever it's booted. There's no way that a user would fail to realize this. I agree that it's unrealistic to expect apps that directly deal with money/finance/etc. to be supported on unlocked devices, but aside from that it should be fair game.

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Re:System Hardening in Android 11 by throwaway9d0291 on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:08AM (#23700497)
> There's no way that a user would fail to realize this.

I think you place far more trust in an average user than they deserve. If a user saw that their phone was factory reset and had a scary warning, I can easily see many users happily ignoring it and setting up their phone again, assuming it was the result of some bug.

The more tech-savvy HN crowd might be worried and flash it with fastboot to be safe but don't expect that of a random average person.

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