[Cryptography] Own on install. How grave it is?

[Georgi Guninski]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 03:54:12PM -0500, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> > This includes smartphones and wireless routers.
> I don't know of any smartphone where there are *any* "installation media" in the traditional sense.  Off hand, I can't think of any wireless routers either:  They come with some version of their software and all further updating is on line.
>

Yes. From my experience in this case the "reinstall" is pressing some
key combination during boot which resets to factory defaults. You still
need updates though.