A phone given for repair by a non-technical person can be rooted without their knowledge. The repair person potentially can install malware. We cannot assume the owners of the rooted phone themselves have rooted the phone.
Practically, verified boot is hard to not have a "this phone has been tampered with" message on boot, the backups generated often have encrypted user data that is usually wiped on boot-loader unlock, you'd also need to unlock the phone or have the user give the pin over and most of the apps that implement root checking SDKs would prevent them from working.
I'm not saying its impossible but it is hard to do at present in a way where if I came and picked up my phone again, I'd not know something happened to it.
The only ways I know to take a full backup of an Android device require it to already be at least bootloader unlocked. There are unprivileged ways to take backups, but they don't work for all apps.
Assuming the owner gave the shop the pin. If so, the shop can already steal a lot of data from the phone. Why bother with persistent malware at this point?
You already have to trust the repair shop with your data. Installing persistent malware on phones is already illegal. What's the point of this extra software protection in this case? To prevent a 0.00001% chance hack? The type of hack that would put the repair men in jail?
Not to even mention that modern phones are basically unfixable.
Taken to the extreme conclusion, governments can potentially charge different tax rates to different individuals based on their inability to sue or inability to fight back. They may completely forego the notion of income based tax brackets . /s
"People with roots in the Chagos Islands have criticised what they called their "exclusion" from negotiations leading to the UK government's deal to give up its sovereignty of the region."
That's the point. Now, suddenly carrier has more powers than they should. Having a standard where consumer is in charge is much more desirable than the other way around.
> This is more convenient than having to search for the SIM removal tool.
Then let the manufacturer know that a SIM tray without the need of SIM removal tool is your preference.
I just started making my own yogurt, it's fun, cheap, and really tasty!
The basic process is the same between recipes (eg https://www.seriouseats.com/homemade-yogurt) but it might take a couple of failures and tweaking (take notes) until you have something that works for you:
* Buy a food thermometer (also super useful for baking and cooking meat!)
* Heat milk to 85C
* Hold between 85C and 90C for 5 mins
* Cool to 50C
* Add a spoon of yogurt (make a new batch before the old one runs out!)
* Keep above 35C for 3-12 hours. You can use the oven with the light on, wrap the yogurt in a blanket and put it in the hot water cupboard, or I like to put it in a cooler alongside 2x as much boiling water in another jar.
Recently I had a discussion about an SV company with a friend in Texas. I mentioned to him, the company X is going to do great as they hire very good engineers. His question was - "what does that have to do good engineers?" Go figure ...
