[Galaxy S 4 General] FallenZen:
Okay, I'm going to try to speed through this right now. I've been poking around, but don't have anything put together for show-and-tell that hasn't already been revealed by others (though some of what I can see as plaintext amidst wandering around the root directories seems suggestive)... That said:

[MENTION=4372730]E:V:A[/MENTION] , thanks for your input. It's good to know that developers are still eyeballing this whole thing. I don't understand what you mean when you say that Qualcomm's 8960 series is PoP. I gather, from Google, that PoP stands for "Package-on-Package;" However, I don't know what the implications are. Could you source a link that might help me (and perhaps other late arrivals) better understand?

Well of course they can see that once you've given them the device ID details. Why is this surprising when they've been able to determine applied updates (PRL, for example) for more than a decade? Let's just accept that cell phones are inherently insecure as far as governmental and manufacturer access restrictions are concerned, and move back to researching KNOX, please?

Only the KNOX password (the PIN, or whatever, you have set for regulating access to the KNOX partition) runs this risk. The basic lock screen does not, from what I've read.

Do we know if anybody around here has knowledge with writing to these chips? Has anyone worked out how to install their own bootloader, kernel, et al? A "from scratch" approach may be worth exploring. In a similar vein, I've been poking around at the possibility of a true hardware emulator, but it's not looking promising at this point. Also, does anyone know if it's possible for me to completely dump the entirety of my device's files/folders/structure to a hard disk? I don't want to exclude anything, not even my media files. I don't care about the 48+GB it will require on my PC, I want every single thing in the dump. Is this possible?

I think I saw that this was discussed earlier, but it was a "man-in-the-middle" exploit which relied on the exploiter being able to install and execute apps on the device itself... and allowed interception of data transfers to and from the KNOX partition.

I've seen some interesting tidbits in /data/log as well. recovery_kernel_log.txt seems to have some items that indicate a factory test as well as references to a "sec" reset. Elsewhere, and I'm uncertain where I saw it, I have seen references to a bit set to 0xdeaddead. For whatever that's worth. I'll be able to better analyze all the crap I've read from /root once I figure out how to work with the whole thing on my primary computer instead of rummaging around through my phone's interface.

There are a lot of people who say they know "a friend of a friend," or whatever, that can verify this. Unless you can PERSONALLY verify this (and advise others on how it can benefit them), then your claim is not terribly helpful. Thanks, though.

Petitions, general complaints, rumors you can't verify: These aren't research and posting them here and will tend to distract researchers looking for data. So can we please post such things in threads that are NOT specifically labeled "research?" Thanks. :)