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What security protocols do you use when getting a new phone?
449 sats \ 4 comments \ @Aardvark 19 Apr AskSN
While I do my best to keep all sensitive data off of my phone, I'm sure there's enough on here to make my life difficult. My 2fa app is on my phone for instance. I have no idea what somone could do with the information on my phone, and I don't think that a factory wipe is good enough.
Do you trade in your phone or just destroy it?
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77 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 19 Apr
1st thing is to encrypt the phone
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42 sats \ 2 replies \ @nichro 19 Apr
Factory wipe + reinstall OS from graphene to stock.
Though I haven't done that in a while since I've repurposed or given my last few to SO.
For laptops that are disposed of, you can write 0s onto the full disk many times if you're that paranoid. Guessing that's possible with a (android) phone too but might be more complicated. Multiple factory wipes might do the same.
If you use a custom recovery like TWRP you can wipe data, cache etc. thoroughly enough imo
EDIT: A lot of this is probably overkill in 99%+ cases if, as someone else mentioned, the phone was encrypted as you should always ensure. Then a factory wipe would make that data unrecoverable. But sometimes, for some people, overshooting what the threat model realistically requires helps one sleep better at night, especially when these devices keep a lot of personal, financial/BTC information, etc.
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18 sats \ 1 reply \ @aljaz 19 Apr
I havent throw away any encrypted or non encrypted device with permanent storage until last year which meant lots of drilling through hard drives and phones (i had phones from 25 years ago)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 19 Apr
That's the classic fool-proof method and doesn't require a command line haha
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