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> ...for most modern single-user linux devices, local privilege escalation means almost nothing.

I haven't actually looked at the numbers, but I strongly suspect that it's true that the overwhelming majority of single-user Linux devices out there are Android devices. If that's true, then it's my understanding that Android does bother to fairly properly sandbox programs from each other... so an escalation to root would actually be a significant gain in access.

akdev1l
Android is not a single user system. Every app, every service basically everything gets its own user.

Applications have different user IDs and different SELinux contexts.

Android security is tight

DaSHacka
Does Android use Udisks? I assumed it did not, due to the difference in architecture over most traditional GNU/Linux desktop systems
simoncion OP
I have no idea if Android uses udisks. It has been something like a decade since I last looked at 'ps' output on an Android machine, so any information on the topic I might have had has faded away with time.

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