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Re: EFI in Debian



On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 07:30:48PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:

> So in answer to your question, there are plenty of Android devices
> which are trivially unlockable.  (And once a Nexus phone is unlocked,
> it's you can get a root shell trivially; no jail-breaking necessary.
> Of course this is true for an attacker/thief who has managed to steal
> your phone, but if you want to unlock the phone, it's easily doable on
> many Android devices.)

Note that the unlock process wipes the data on the phone which does
provide some security here.


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