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		Muromec 20 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-roll... > Not for technical reasons, but because of an arbitrary lock (achieved through signature). There is a good reason to prevent downgrades -- older versions have CVEs and some are actually exploitable.

rvnx 8 hours ago [–]

and ? this should prevent you from deciding the level of risk or even installing forks of that OS (that can also write fixes, even without source-code by patching binaries) ?

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