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hn_submittoday at 11:40 AM1 replyview on HN

LEA, Customs and intelligence agencies regularly use GDB to hack and extract information from an Android phone. So in that sense it may be a valid concern and reason to restrict this.

However, I'm pretty sure these entities will already have negotiated exemptions from the restrictions so in that sense they don't add much security.


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felooboolooombatoday at 11:43 AM

Yeah, and they regularly use USB cables to do that too.