alt Hacker NewsThis is actually useful for smartphones. Sometimes smartphone malware is capable of infecting a device but not persisting, so reboots clean it back up.
At least if you trust the NSA's advice: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21018353/nsa-mobile-d...
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arikrahman • today at 6:01 PM
This is one of the features I appreciate with OneUI, I can set it to automatically restart it in the mornings.
Cider9986 • today at 6:37 PM
On GrapheneOS, restarting also brings the device to a BFU state, which makes it loads harder for an adversary with physical access to unlock it.
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ChrisMarshallNY • today at 6:08 PM
The people that I know, in the security field, restart their phones, multiple times per day.
The same reason I barely restarted my iPhone for a few years. The `checkra1n` jailbreak had to be reinstalled each time (though it was easy):
https://checkra.in/