Hardening mobile devices
Sometimes, when discussing the topic of smartphones, we hear an Android user mention that they have rooted their device. What is rooting? Within the Android ecosystem, rooting is refers to the root-level access on the mobile device. Like Linux, the root user account is considered to be a user with super/full privileges on the system; since Android is Linux-based, gaining full administration privileges is called rooting.
Having a device with full access rights is awesome, which means you can install and modify the applications and system resources to fit your needs. However, rooting comes with many security risks for Android users. First, the device's warranty becomes null or void if it's rooted and it has a higher ...
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