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the only way to truely wipe a mobile phone is by reflashing the os. Fortunately for pixel phones google has made this super simple. This is
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the reason i bought the pixel phone as it seems to be one of the few phones where a complete reflash is available. Factory reset is not enough.
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Factory Reset ( despite its name ) simple wipes the user data partition and nothing else. Malware can potentially still exist in the system
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partitions, through a exploit that harnessed priviledge escalation or if someone had physical access to the device, rooted it, installed malware
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and unrooted it, at least thats my thinking anyway. There is talk of partition hashes, but ultimately the golden rule is, once someone has had physical
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access to the device - all bets are off.
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the only way to truely wipe a mobile phone is by reflashing the os.
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<br>
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Fortunately for pixel phones google has made this super simple. This is the reason i bought the pixel phone as it
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seems to be one of the few phones where a complete reflash is available.
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Factory reset is not enough.
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<br>
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Factory Reset ( despite its name ) simple wipes the user data partition and nothing else.
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Malware can potentially still exist in the system partitions, through a exploit that harnessed priviledge escalation
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or if someone had physical access to the device, rooted it, installed malware and unrooted it, at least thats my thinking anyway.
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There is talk of partition hashes, but ultimately the golden rule is, once someone has had physical access to the device - all bets are off.
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this blog will cover windows to start, i'll update later to include linux and macos

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