NSA-Proof Blackphone Gets Rooted in Under 5 Minutes at BlackHat

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The ultra secure NSA-Proof Blackphone just got schooled at Blackhat this weekend. The device was rooted in under 5 minutes without needing to unlock the bootloader. @TeamAndIRC pulled off getting root access and turning on ADB on the device. The vulnerability that allowed this to happen is now semi-fixed and needs the user to take action to be able to exploit the weakness. Still its ironic that yet again even the most secure of Android phones are susceptible to the inherent trust model of the Android OS which was never built with security in mind.

Hopefully now that Blackphone got a taste of some humble pie they can go back out and try harder without a chip on their shoulder…

Thanks to everyone who sent this in! via PhoneArena

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