I’ll risk asking the first question. If it’s not a good fit for the community, then at least I can serve as a negative example.

Here’s the scenario. I’m going to be traveling over the next few months and expect to be in areas where I don’t have a right to my digital privacy. My device might be inspected, cloned, etc without my knowledge. I might even be required to give up the passcode. I’ll do my best to maintain physical control of my device at all times, but that might not always be possible. My intention is to responsibly recycle the device at the end of the summer once I return to a more secure environment. I’ll try to take reasonable precautions like powering down the device completely when unattended but the potential for uncontrolled physical access has me concerned.

My thoughts are that I want something used to reduce my environmental impact but that still has up to date security patches at a reasonably low cost. I would also like it to provide an acceptable user experience. A used Pixel 4a 5G looks like a great candidate for that.

Are you using this device? Does it provide a good user experience today? I’m looking for some opinions or perhaps suggestions for a device that might meet my requirements.

  • j4k3@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Graphene uses the pixels because it has hardware security locks. Bootloader is locked just like any OEM. The Auditor tool makes it possible to verify if the ROM has been tampered with. It is remotely checking that the software hashes correctly. There is no way to fake this type of check and verification.

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      1 year ago

      This sounds like a really good option! I think I’m going to go with this. I have enough technical background that I shouldn’t have too much trouble getting it installed.