Google incorporates QFuse chip in the Nexus 6P to rat who … – Tudocelular.com

Who had a Galaxy Note 3 must have been irritated by a big change that the South Korean made on the machine’s bootloader. If you are of those who likes exploit the device’s potential to leave testing different ROMs, must have hit head-on with the Samsung Knox. The company’s security suite is to create a layer over protection in the system, but it stops working if you do root on your Galaxy. With Note 3 Samsung included a chip called QFuse that triggers a flag in bootloader to inform you that your system has changed. This solution is already in use in recent releases of South Korea.

The problem is that this process is irreversible. However, after several months of launch, the talented XDA Developers figured out how to keep Knox Flag as unchanged, however, without compromising system integrity. The bad news is that other manufacturers seem to be following the same path. Huawei and Google have included the same chip in the Nexus 6P, which is the warranty of your smartphone be canceled if you unlock the bootloader to root the device.

Why Google would adopt such a policy so limited? Everything revolves around Android Pay. Because it is a tool for digital payments, it needs to be as safe as possible. With QFuse chip, the manufacturer will be quiet as to their device software integrity. If your data is stolen and you open a case against Google or smartphone manufacturer the QFuse chip will tell whether the fault is his to have unlocked the bootloader to free root access.

And no reinstall the factory software or re-lock the blootloader. The warning will continue to exist as the chip was violated. The only solution is to change the PCB to have a complementary new chip. Of course, we may see some root access tool for Nexus 6P not trigger this protection, as with some Samsung models. However, if the chip has been violated, then there is more to do. Still no word if the LG did the same with the Nexus 5X, but the focus is to ensure the safe use of Android Pay, then we can expect that it also counts with a QFuse chip.

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