[menzoic]

How is the security risk propaganda?

[msgodel]

If your security model means me having access to my own hardware is a security risk you're malicious and your security model is bad.

[flotzam]

It's not (only) propaganda. Rooting disables or bypasses verified boot, allowing exploits to persist across a reboot.

[franga2000]

Malware van persist across reboots regardless of verified boot. What it can't do is persist through a factory reset.

But if you really want a thorough reset, simply re-lock the bootloader and flash stock firmware from there. Nothing can persist through that without an exploit in the verification chain and if you have that kind of exploit, you don't need the bootloader to be unlocked in the first place.

Also, there are devices out there that let you enroll your own keys, like the Google Pixel series.

[ahoka]

It's the hardware vendor's "think of the children".