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Este recurso explica los pasos que los sobrevivientes o los proveedores de servicios para víctimas pueden tomar para verificar si los dispositivos de los sobrevivientes pueden haber sido “rooted” o “jailbroken”.

This resource explains steps that survivors or victim service providers can take to check whether survivors’ devices may have been rooted or jailbroken.

In this talk, we will discuss how abusers use rooting and jailbreaking to compromise survivors’ devices. When a phone is jailbroken or rooted, it gives up the phone’s security and causes the potential for shortened battery life, crashes, and freezes. Jailbreaking and rooting can leave a survivor with limited control over system updates, anti-malware protection, and can facilitate an abuser installing unauthorized apps, such as stalkerware, which allows the abuser to monitor the survivor’s device. It is important that survivors know and understands how these tactics of tech misuse can impact their devices and also learn how they can check their devices for this type of tech misuse.

A series of strategies to consider when working with older victims.

Abusers employ stalkerware as a technique to keep an eye on and manage victims. While it may be intended to operate covertly on a victim’s device, it is intrusive and dangerous for survivors because it can keep track of a variety of activities they carry out on their device.