Dumb question: can you not protect an Android device simply by turning off automatic updates?
Even if you're then not especially careful about which updates you accept, you'd still avoid any risk of an upgrade being applied while the phone was locked… no?
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Date: 2016-02-23 02:12 am (UTC)Even if you're then not especially careful about which updates you accept, you'd still avoid any risk of an upgrade being applied while the phone was locked… no?