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Originally Posted by BWinmill
They didn't describe what they did, so we can't really say what they did. Let's pretend that they faithfully booted Linux, recreated the partitions on a new uSD card, and copied the files over. Or let's say that they did the above, except they used an image of each partition to faithfully reproduce it. Those approaches would result in the exact same result as the one that you suggested since part of the system is outside of the partitioned space.
The only thing we can be reasonably sure of is that they did it wrong.
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Other than the boot record, the only item I am aware of in the the unpartitioned space is the serial number. When I generate an image, I fill the serial number with a random set of bytes and it seems to have no ill effect.
If they copied the partitions without making the uSD card bootable, it does little to boost my opinion of their capabilities.