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P.S. /e/ = LineageOS, which breaks Android's security model.

Graphene, then Calyx, is a great place to start.

If Android's security model precludes owner from gaining root privileges (even over adb), then on my phone, I would prefer that model broken, thank you very much.

You'd rather have root in userspace than basic boot security?

Your threat model must be that of Swiss cheese from air.

There are already a handful of processes running as UID 0 on Android. How, exactly, enabling "adb root" changes "threat model" or whatever lofty concepts I am supposed to care about?

I mean - assuming a competent user who is not going to install a "flashlight app with root permissions", or copy-paste things they don't understand off of internet, and such.

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