The privacy-focused Blackphone was rooted in just five minutes in a challenge at the weekend’s conference Def Con.
According to Crackberry, one user managed to gain root access and enable ADB on the device without the need to even unlock the bootloader.
The exploit was partially patched after, and was not exploitable without user intent, that’s going to be a problem for the company who has been selling Blackphone as a ‘secure’ Android offering while arguing with BlackBerry over security
