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Google Pixel Has Been Beaten!

kav2001c — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 18:05:18 GMT

Ok so maybe from other thread I was too pessimistic. A very loyal fanbase worked hard on doing what many thought could not be done.

https://twitter.com/ChainfireXDA/status/791748015925161984

Just remember messing with Verizon bootloader will most likely void any warranty through Verizon

http://theroot.ninja/dePixel8

Re: Google Pixel Has Been Beaten!

imm1304 — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 15:34:33 GMT

This is great news. Its systemless root so we can make it play nice with Google Safetynet too.

Great phone, but as a true PM'er, I will look out for a great deal before I buy it 😄

Re: Google Pixel Has Been Beaten!

kav2001c — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:09:55 GMT

@imm1304 only 2 confirmed incompatibilities are for Pokemon Go and Google Pay

Everything else seems to work

Re: Google Pixel Has Been Beaten!

Korth — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 23:27:45 GMT

XDA Developers has been the authority since long before smartphones, lol, but welcome to the club!

No device is ever "impossible" to root. No lockout or tamperproofing is ever "impossible" to circumvent or neutralize. No encryption method is ever "impossible" to break.

It does take some time to decipher all the JTAG boundaries and spoof opcodes, to bypass lockout or DRM circuitry on the mainboard, to successfully interface embedded SMD logic/storage chips with external debugger/programmer hardwares, or to just crunch and brute all the hard number permutations on a bunch of computers. In absolute worst-case situations, the software can be extracted (and duplicated, then modified) by methodically exposing and examining the nano-scale circuit lithography under extreme magnification. (Note that expert hackers can exploit all the same approaches and tools that are used by teardown engineers and by forensic data recovery experts.)

And many consumer devices simply aren't popular, capable, or interesting enough to motivate such time-consuming efforts.

Fortunately for us, there's always serious hacker prestige attached to the first person(s) able to thoroughly pwn a new device, especially whenever an "evil faceless profit-grubbing corporation" throws down the gauntlet by proudly boasting their new DRM technology (whatever it is) is somehow "completely secure and ultimately, utterly unbreakable".

Re: Google Pixel Has Been Beaten!

WearySky — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 02:48:50 GMT

@kav2001c wrote:
@imm1304 only 2 confirmed incompatibilities are for Pokemon Go and Google Pay
Everything else seems to work

Yeah, bloody Pokemon GO has made it insanely annoying for those of who want to root for the added power it gives.