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CLEAN non GPL infringing code made in Rust lang
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February 10, 2020, 10:19:50 PM |
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This is a hard to answer question. In general Android is insecure, and rooting it is akin to running windows as administrator all the time (which a worrisome amount of people do anyways).
In an ideal world, smartphones wouldn't come with unwanted software users are not allowed to remove, additionally the likes of AT&T wouldn't add even more of that software if you make the mistake of turning the phone with their chip still in the first time (specially when you are in a completely different country). Also ideally they would provide security updates and even OS upgrades, but the vast majority won't.
The smartphone ecosystem is bad. Apple is a little but not much better, what with dropping support (no security updates) to perfectly working devices because its out of fashion for them.
In general, if you don't have a really pressing need to root your phone, don't. If you just wanted to remove junk, you could root, remove, unroot. But, not all phones can be "rooted" safely, and some can be bricked. Also try not to leave the adb thing enabled when you play with the thing, preferably never go online with that, its a serious infection vector.
Good or bad, well depends if you truly know what your doing, which is sadly not the usual case.
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