> > When I got my first Android phone I could root it pretty trivially and run a fully customized ROM, these days it's not really practical on many devices.
> Some of the easiest phones to do this to today, namely the Pixel phones, are also some of the most secure stock Android phones on the market. Freedom and security are not mutually exclusive.
What's so safe about it once you unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM / rootkit (since by disabling boot verification you don't actually know that what you're booting is the custom ROM you intended to to boot or something else)?
> Some of the easiest phones to do this to today, namely the Pixel phones, are also some of the most secure stock Android phones on the market. Freedom and security are not mutually exclusive.
What's so safe about it once you unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM / rootkit (since by disabling boot verification you don't actually know that what you're booting is the custom ROM you intended to to boot or something else)?