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[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I suppose it depends on what model phone you have. I don't think it can root my BlackBerry Priv either. But from what I understand, you can root other phones simply by installing and running an app. If the virus gets installed, it should be able to do the same.

[–]AntiLowEffortHuman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I guess. Had a shitty older Chinese Mediatek phone. Was 16-17 at the time with no mobile internet and wanted to hack wifi networks, so used the easiest method to root. an app named Kingroot did it within seconds. The things the phone and i went through... Sigh. good times.

I wonder if it is this easy on desktop distros of linux? It requires a password, yes, but i hope there are no vulnerabilities.