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Tin hat time! The NSA has a new backdoor rolling out to everyone’s phones but they need to reboot for it to finish installing.
Ha! I refuse to reboot anything
Well now I’m not doing it
Doesn’t actually describe how it helps…
if your phone compromised, chances are the code is running in volatile memory , a reboot would clean such infections.
My uneducated guess is, some threats will burrow themselves in active memory but have no way of persisting beyond a reboot. Or perhaps it just shuts down background software you don’t need that could be vulnerable.
Makes sense and gives a compelling reason for regular reboots.
Still waiting for the reasoning 🤷♂️
