Rabat_ Social Media Exchange (SMEX)—a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing human rights in digital spaces across MENA [Middle East and North Africa] — is warning that Israeli-linked software secretly embedded in Samsung phones across the Middle East and North Africa region poses a serious surveillance threat.
According to SMEX, Samsung’s A and M series devices either come preloaded with the app “Aura” or install it automatically through system updates, without the user’s consent. The application reportedly collects a wide range of personal and device-specific data, including IP addresses, device fingerprints, hardware details, and network information.
They thought you meant carrier-unlocked. That’s what most people care about, being able to switch providers.
I doubt they even knew what a bootloader is.
Nope. I clearly told them I was going to install Graphene OS and I would not be changing carriers.
They didn’t know the real answer so they just made something up.
Once it’s carrier unlocked you should be able to unlock the bootloader though right?
Those are 2 entirely different things. There are phones that are carrier locked that can have the bootloader unlocked, also the other way around.
I would look at the model number, and then search if it’s bootloader unlock able in XDA developers or something like that.
Huh, guess I got lucky with my pixel 9 from mint mobile last year lol
I don’t believe they are related