On Saturday, 3 June 2017 2:39:58 PM AEST Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:
Can I ask either Craig or Russell; as extremely knowledgable Linux users; their opinion of things like Kingroot https://kingroot.net/; as an alturnative to replacing the supplied version of Android ?
That looks to be one of those services that exploits a security flaw in some versions of Android to get root access and then replace critical files in the Android installation to allow continued root access. Running that gives the people who run that site root access to your phone. Do you trust them for that? That's the same issue as whether you trust Google/ Samsung/etc to make an image without backdoors or Debian/Ubuntu/Red Hat to do the same with your PC installation. Except that kingroot is a small organisation that is little known. Next if you run that then an update to Android on your device might undo the root access either by accident or design. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/