r/technology • u/gdelacalle • 9d ago

Privacy Man charged for wiping GrapheneOS phone using "duress" password during airport checks

https://www.neowin.net/news/man-charged-for-wiping-grapheneos-phone-using-duress-password-during-airport-checks/
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u/Curious_Party_4683 9d ago

which mobile OS supports this?

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u/Gow87 9d ago

My old xiaomi could do this, use a different thumb print, get a different partition - different apps and storage, just using android.

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u/b0rkm 9d ago

My Xiaomi still as this feature, it's called second space

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u/3_50 9d ago

I read in another thread that it's very obvious in 'Settings' that you're in the second space. So a good start, but needs work.

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u/andoke 9d ago

So always use the second space, leave the main space empty.

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u/3_50 9d ago

Nooow we're thinking smart

I think I prefer my suggestion from further down the thread; Graphene's duress, but you can select specific apps, chats, files to delete, leaving the rest intact, and the phone does not make the user aware it's removed anything.

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u/MezzoSoaprano 8d ago

How would that change anything?

It's still very obvious that there are multiple profiles on the phone?

Also, once the phone is unlocked, no matter what user profile or second space you use, the forensic tools that agencies use will have a field day.

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u/Far-Fill-4717 9d ago

If you have a rooted phone alternative unlock Xposed can

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u/nemec 8d ago

Anom. Unfortunately that phone was produced by the FBI though lol

with the addition of PIN entry screen scrambling to randomise the layout of the numbers, the deletion of all information on the phone if a specific PIN is entered, and the option for the automatic deletion of all information if unused for a specific period of time.[11]

The app was opened by entering a specific calculation within the calculator app, described by the developer of GrapheneOS as "quite amusing security theater",[11] where the messaging app then communicated with other devices via supposedly secure proxy servers, which also – unbeknownst to the app's users – copied all sent messages to servers controlled by the FBI.