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      1 year ago

      installing your own OS and/or bootloader is a pain and most of the time unfeasable. And that’s the only way to safely kill software based backdoors.

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          on Android, the OS is the firmware. If you talk about peripheral firmware, I’d not call it “software based” anymore.