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 ...

I know that normally the answer is a quick "no", and I know the usual reasoning behind it... but I'm hoping that perhaps someone here has managed to find a roundabout way to lock the bootloader ...

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 ...

One of the biggest advantages of Android over other mobile operating systems is the freedom users have to install different versions of the system on their phones. Since Android is Open Source, you ...

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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If you’ve ever bought a carrier-branded phone before, it should come as no surprise that said carrier wants to keep that phone on their network at all costs. Many times this comes in the form of ...

Following the debacle surrounding the locked bootloader issue on Asus’ quad-core Transformer Prime Android tablet, it appears that Asus is trying to rectify some early wrongs. The outfit is offering ...