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Considerations for buying Used Pixel Phone? (links.hackliberty.org)
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Hi all,

Sorry for the foolish question but I have to make a quick decision here and trust you to point me in the right direction.

I am about to buy a google pixel phone second hand with cash. (for graphene, not gonna use a sim)

1: What things do I need to be on the lookout for? How can I quickly verify it is unlocked/rootable?

2: Any recommendations on where to buy? I've never used stuff like FB market, craigslist, etc. but I think those places would be my best bet. Please tell me if you have a better idea.

Thanks in advance and hope you have a good rest of your day

EDIT: Graphene in hand! Good to be back on custom roms, rocked cyanogenmod for a long time

Thanks guys

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[–] pinkerman33@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 4 months ago

I think it's not that simple. It depends on your personal preferences and your threat model.

In my case I have my phone rooted because it makes it very easy to debug some things and reverse engineer some IoT devices. It can also helps you increasing performance in some low quality phones.

It doesn't necessarily open up another attack vector if you are careful and verify for yourself what you install and what you give permissions to. It's like your personal linux computer in which normally you have root access and if you are careful enough it's not unwanted that you have root permissions.