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According to Wired, Android Verified Boot (AVB) prevents the computer owner from changing their mind about an OS update. No going back to the previous version. Leave no escape from from the latest improvements in Google's data collection to support its advertising services racket.

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The point of anti-rollback technology is to make it so security holes are patched permanently: an attacker can't unwind updates back to the point at which the known exploit works.

"Anti-rollback technology" apparently cannot distinguish between an "attacker" and the computer owner.

Such is the nature of evil maid attacks and the like

No technology can.

I believe that's only the case if the update increments the anti-rollback counter.

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