How The Android Malware That Survives Factory Reset Works

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[–]jmichaelhudsondotnet 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

tl:dr It works by the company who built the hardware designing the phones primarily for surveillance and secondarily for everything else, knowing full well you are going to try to not be tracked, and intending from the very beginning to thwart your attempts not to be tracked

"how does it gain root access that easily"

answer: you get a big advantage if you designed and constructed the device, and a bigger disadvantage if you did not yet are too unintelligent not to realize your disadvantage or the true nature of your adversary due to their ubiquitous advertising campaign

[–]LarrySwinger2[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not a representative tl;dr. It is indeed curious that it comes back on cheap Chinese phones even after reflashing the default ROM. But the article doesn't say it primarily relies on manufacturers installing backdoors. It also affects phones that are not backdoored, and on those, reflashing will remove it. And anyway, the article is so short that it doesn't need a tl;dr.