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Cops in [Spain] think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer
Pixel phones are criminals' top pick in Spain's Catalonia for their strong security and mod-friendly design.
“Every time we see a Google Pixel, we suspect it might belong to a drug dealer,” said a police official leading the anti-drug operation in Catalonia, as per Xataka Android(machine translated). The police’s solution to counter these clever tricks is to infect suspects’ phones with malware to gain full access to apps, media, documents, and more. So while Google surely didn’t intend for Pixels to become the phone of choice for criminals, their security hardware, mod-friendly nature, and support for GrapheneOS have made them unexpectedly attractive to the wrong crowd.
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