This will delight the one person in ten thousand who wants to jailbreak their own phone, and the border police in Australia (mandatory scans of phone required on demand), or China, or stalkerware retailers, or repair shops who like to rat around on customers' phones.
You can already assume that states are sitting on exploits that they've found or bought, and that they can compel companies to provide some form of access via NSLs or secret courts.
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This will delight the one person in ten thousand who wants to jailbreak their own phone, and the border police in Australia (mandatory scans of phone required on demand), or China, or stalkerware retailers, or repair shops who like to rat around on customers' phones.
Guess which will be the more common use?
You can already assume that states are sitting on exploits that they've found or bought, and that they can compel companies to provide some form of access via NSLs or secret courts.
only more advanced states.
Nah, anyone with a pile of money can buy exploits and hire professionals to discover them.
Kingdoms in the desert have had access to root certificates for almost a decade now.
Reboot your phone if you know you have given it to someone you don't trust.
This is a persistent compromise. That will not help.
No, it's exactly not that.
Even the title says "Tethered." It's far from persistent.
The title says tethered