ADVICE WHEN USING RESELLERS PROVIDING PREFLASHED GRAPHENEOS PHONES

Selling people devices with GrapheneOS is permitted. However, please don't sell people end-of-life or near end-of-life devices. This is essentially scamming customers and goes against our strong recommendation to not purchase devices older than the Pixel 6. This needs to stop.

We've brought this up with several of the stores selling GrapheneOS phones. Several have listened to us and changed their approach. Others have doubled down on it and even blocked us for making this request. If you're using our trademarked name/logo, this is more than a request.

You can verify that it's running genuine GrapheneOS via the 2 methods in https://grapheneos.org/install/web#verifying-installation but you can't confirm that someone hasn't added a hardware implant, etc. For example, what if they add a malicious component hooked up directly to the microphone with another radio?

Buying a refurbished device in a standard way is unlikely to end up with you being targeted.

There are many existing examples of companies selling backdoored supposedly more secure phones. There are far more examples of insecure devices sold as supposedly more secure phones.