baatliwala@lemmy.world to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 25 days agoGoogle wants to make stolen Android phones basically unsellablewww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down11
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minus-squareMaeve@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down13·25 days agoSpyware. Tracking. Extensive databases. Sneakily active mics and cameras. SIM cards requiring phone numbers tied to government issued ID. Security cameras. Smart home. Facial recognition. Fingerprints. Been incarcerated? DNA.
minus-squarethrowawayacc0430@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·24 days agoMisinformation. FRP is triggered by factory reset through any method that’s not from the settings menu (eg: Recovery Menu). It doesn’t require “spyware” to work. Google’s spyware issue is a whole separate topic from FRP. If they wanted to, the developers of Graphene OS could design a FRP system that has nothing to do with Google at all.
Spyware. Tracking. Extensive databases. Sneakily active mics and cameras. SIM cards requiring phone numbers tied to government issued ID. Security cameras. Smart home. Facial recognition. Fingerprints. Been incarcerated? DNA.
Misinformation.
FRP is triggered by factory reset through any method that’s not from the settings menu (eg: Recovery Menu).
It doesn’t require “spyware” to work.
Google’s spyware issue is a whole separate topic from FRP.
If they wanted to, the developers of Graphene OS could design a FRP system that has nothing to do with Google at all.