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Re:Non-Replaceable Battery? Not If This Proposed EU Law Passes by josephcsible on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:17PM (#34140214)
That covers most of the software, but basically every modern phone has some proprietary drivers that are necessary for it to function and that have security vulnerabilities of their own.
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Re:Non-Replaceable Battery? Not If This Proposed EU Law Passes by bakugo on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:48PM (#34141088)
And nobody's going to exploit those device-specific vulnerabilities (that probably require local code execution anyway) unless you're a high-value target.
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