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by atat7024 1875 days ago
You'd rather have root in userspace than basic boot security?

Your threat model must be that of Swiss cheese from air.

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There are already a handful of processes running as UID 0 on Android. How, exactly, enabling "adb root" changes "threat model" or whatever lofty concepts I am supposed to care about?

I mean - assuming a competent user who is not going to install a "flashlight app with root permissions", or copy-paste things they don't understand off of internet, and such.