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Is it worth to buy a used phone from ebay? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by Vitaly@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

None of this will save you. The boot loader can be replaced with one that merely pretends to be locked and merely pretends to flash the replacement operating system it's sent over the USB port.

If the phone has ever been in the custody of someone you don't trust, you can't trust anything about it.