<span class="gmail_quote"></span>You are probably not alone, these things should be disabled by default.<br><br>I would chose to install a backdoor (I dislike thieves more than crackers) but it should be an explicit choice from the user.
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On 6/30/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Stirling</b> <<a href="mailto:OpenMoko@mauve.plus.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">OpenMoko@mauve.plus.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Frank Coenen wrote:<br>> True. But ones the thief removed your simcard I assume he will flash the<br>> firmware... And then the theft-protection will be gone as well :-(<br>><br><br>I've commented on this before.
<br><br>The user is not always the owner.<br><br>This is clearest in the theft case.<br><br>It's also a factor when you might want to give phones to employees or<br>children.<br><br>If I own the phone, I want the freedom to lock it down so hard that I
<br>can't get back into it with the debug board if I forget the password/phrase.<br><br>And yes, this does imply some things - kernel preventing all access to<br>the NAND from all but the root user, DFU/u-boot supporting
<br>password/passphrase/signed updates, and hardware support.<br><br>Personally, I don't want a back door into the hardware where if someone<br>has my phone for 30s, and a properly prepared laptop, they can boot an<br>
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