▲ 397 ▼ Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com) submitted 2 years ago by VITecNet@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world 102 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) I wonder if the regular updates mine does count. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] viking@infosec.pub 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, a reboot is a reboot. As long as the boot sequence cycles through where the code is validated, you're good. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Chozo@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago a reboot is a reboot Not always. Some phones will do a sort of "soft" reboot, which doesn't actually go through the entire boot process, but is more like logging out of the active OS user and back in, reloading some of the OS but not all. Pretty sure a system update would trigger a full reboot, though, but I've seen the option for this sort of partial reboot in the power menu on some devices in the past. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] viking@infosec.pub 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yes, a reboot is a reboot. As long as the boot sequence cycles through where the code is validated, you're good. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Chozo@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago a reboot is a reboot Not always. Some phones will do a sort of "soft" reboot, which doesn't actually go through the entire boot process, but is more like logging out of the active OS user and back in, reloading some of the OS but not all. Pretty sure a system update would trigger a full reboot, though, but I've seen the option for this sort of partial reboot in the power menu on some devices in the past. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Chozo@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago a reboot is a reboot Not always. Some phones will do a sort of "soft" reboot, which doesn't actually go through the entire boot process, but is more like logging out of the active OS user and back in, reloading some of the OS but not all. Pretty sure a system update would trigger a full reboot, though, but I've seen the option for this sort of partial reboot in the power menu on some devices in the past. permalink fedilink source parent