My older brother is abusive, and I need precautions to be safe.
That’s my threat model.
I actually would rather run a phone with stock OS with verified boot, rather than LineageOS but with bootloader unlocked. Evil Maid from someone you know wanting fuck around with you is more scary to me than government tbh
(I don’t have a pixel for graphene)
Edit: Also these cables cost like $200 online from HAK5. My brother definitely can pull some shit if he tried. He’s in Computer Science in college.
Only with a few rare phones… most phones just gets bricked if you attempt to lock it under a custom os because they don’t support custom keys.
Pixel supports it, but I don’t have a pixel. (If I did I would just use Graphene lol)
New is expensive
and I really distrust the used market… feels very sketchy and it could have hidden damage that doesn’t manifest itself until the return window is already passed (if they even allow a return at all), also I have a paranoia about getting an IMEI that a criminal have used and then cops come knocking thinking its ME doing the illegal activity (cuz you know they do the “oops wrong address” thing often and they’ve shot people to death over it )
My older brother is abusive, and I need precautions to be safe.
That’s my threat model.
I actually would rather run a phone with stock OS with verified boot, rather than LineageOS but with bootloader unlocked. Evil Maid from someone you know wanting fuck around with you is more scary to me than government tbh
(I don’t have a pixel for graphene)
Edit: Also these cables cost like $200 online from HAK5. My brother definitely can pull some shit if he tried. He’s in Computer Science in college.
Is it not possible to lock the bootloader again with LineageOS?
Only with a few rare phones… most phones just gets bricked if you attempt to lock it under a custom os because they don’t support custom keys.
Pixel supports it, but I don’t have a pixel. (If I did I would just use Graphene lol)
New is expensive
and I really distrust the used market… feels very sketchy and it could have hidden damage that doesn’t manifest itself until the return window is already passed (if they even allow a return at all), also I have a paranoia about getting an IMEI that a criminal have used and then cops come knocking thinking its ME doing the illegal activity (cuz you know they do the “oops wrong address” thing often and they’ve shot people to death over it )