An encryption application will protect data even if somebody
gains physical access to your device.
OnePlus has taken the steps to rectify these gaps, and the Engineer Mode flaw in particular is only particularly damaging if an attacker is able to
gain physical access to your device and get past your lock screen — which would be cause for concern no matter what phone you're using.
Not exact matches
The app lets users
gain root
access to the
device without the need for unlocking its bootloader — which is a way
to say that malicious users could get
to the core of a OnePlus phone and install malware with ease, although they would likely need
physical access to it.
With
access to JavaScript on mobile
devices, ebooks can potentially
gain access to information about the reading
device itself, such as the location of the reader in the
physical world, or the
device's orientation, or even add photos and video from the
device's camera.
A security researcher discovered that HP laptops come with hidden keylogger software that hackers can activate if they
gain physical access to the target
device.
In addition,
gaining root
access is only possible if users have activated USB debugging, and hackers will need
to have
physical access to the target
device.
Regardless, the fact that the attacker would need
physical access to the
device in order
to gain root
access to it via EngineerMode means that the existence of the diagnostics tool isn't considered a major security vulnerability by OnePlus, especially since not even that scenario would allow for backdoor root privileges
to be granted
to potentially malicious apps.
Not only could thieves
gain physical access to the home, but they could also be privy
to a large volume of information about the owners that might be stored on
devices or in the cloud.