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             <p>Updates can be downloaded via
             <a href="https://grapheneos.org/releases">the releases page</a> and installed via recovery
-            with adb sideloading. The zip files are signed and verified by the GrapheneOS recovery
-            image.</p>
+            with adb sideloading. The zip files are signed and verified by recovery, just as they
+            are by the update client within the OS. This includes providing downgrade protection,
+            which prevents attempting to downgrade the version and triggering the verified boot
+            downgrade protection.</p>
 
             <p>To install one by sideloading, first, boot into recovery. You may do this either by
             using <code>adb reboot recovery</code> from the operating system, or by selecting the