But remember: With great power comes great instability. The reason OEMs lock bootloaders isn't just malice; it's because running an OS where dm-verity is disabled means a single bit flip in flash memory can corrupt your entire system partition without recovery.
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But here is the paradox that keeps security researchers up at night: But remember: With great power comes great instability
Let’s put the pitchforks down.
Most MediaTek and some UniPhier bootloaders have a "preloader" or "DA (Download Agent)" mode. This mode listens for USB vendor commands. The vulnerability allows an attacker to send a specifically crafted USB control transfer that causes the bootloader to jump to a malicious payload loaded over USB RAM— the signature check on the main boot image occurs. But here is the paradox that keeps security