How does security and encryption defeat someone just booting into recovery?

Regardless of device encryption and fingerprint scanners and the like, couldn't someone just get your phone, boot into recovery, and factory reset it? Wouldn't that undo any security you had on device?

MTK9586 phone, charge port physically broken & Encryption Error can't factory reset.

It all started with a random "Encryption Unsuccessful" error, and an attempt to factory reset. The phone won't boot and since the charging port is broken I can't use "Fastboot" or "ADB" which are both on my phone.

I've tried finding a replacement port, and don't even know where to begin. The board looks nothing like an actual Galaxy Mega on the inside. I'm not sure if there's a standard port I could try to solder. For the past 6 months or so I've just been using a battery charger.

I've tried finding the proper ROM and installing it from the SD card, only to get "Installation Aborted." error.
The ROM I tried to install was the MTK6589 ROM from this forum post http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2594101

I love the phone, been using it for over a year now with no problems. If anyone has advice on how I can solve either of these issues I would be extremely grateful.

Rooting 5X same as 5 ? Even after encryption?

TWRP is released for 5X! So to root, do we need to follow the same steps like Flash TWRP and flash SuperSU?:D

That encryption though

There are a few videos on YouTube now of speed comparisons between the 6p, 5x, and original 5. The 6p and 5x consistently stomp the 5 into the ground with benchmarks, however the 5 usually actually seems to WIN at general performance. Only thing I can figure is that this is due to the forced encryption. Do you guys think there will be an easy hack to disable the encryption or no?

Encryption

Updated to the latest YOG4PAS2QL, didn't try encryption before but did it on latest update, took 30mins! Fast must be using hardware accelerated encryption? Not complaining lol 😁

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