What use is having a lock when you leave the door wide open anyway. That's the puzzle that OnePlus 6 owners are now facing after it was discovered how the phone may be fundamentally insecure right at ...

Just days after developers rightfully complained that the Transformer Prime would ship with an encrypted bootloader, Asus has backed down. Gentlemen, start your ROMs ...

For obvious security reasons, Android requires users to take a number of steps before it should be possible to unlock a smartphone’s bootloader and boot a modified firmware image. But with the OnePlus ...

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One of a few issues people have noticed with the smaller Google Pixel 2 is some units’ missing option to unlock the bootloader. While it’s not something that would annoy everyone, enthusiasts use this ...

A security researcher discovered a vulnerability on the OnePlus 6 lets you bypass the phone’s locked bootloader with any modified boot image. You need physical access to the phone to take advantage of ...

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Google‘s new Pixel phones have an unusual issue. Not all of them, but a few early buyers of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro have noticed that the devices have arrived with an unlocked bootloader. It’s ...