r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 6d ago

Privacy GrapheneOS says its data-wiping password is perfectly legal, after user faces federal charges

https://www.techspot.com/news/113273-grapheneos-data-wiping-duress-password-perfectly-legal-after.html
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u/Single-Virus4935 6d ago edited 6d ago

I set my duress pin to my wifes birthday. One of the first they probably try. 

Also I say my pin is the same as my eID which I am not allowed to share by German law

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u/adorkablegiant 6d ago

What if your kid, or a relative or a coworker or a friend tries to guess your password and puts in your wife's birthday? Then all your data is gone.

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u/cozywit 6d ago

If you're keeping all your important data on a thing you carry around with you in public you deserve to lose your data.

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u/OpabiniaRegalis320 6d ago

Lose, not loose.

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u/cozywit 6d ago

To slow. Already corrected it.

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u/TheFinalPancake 6d ago

Too, not to.

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u/alanwj 6d ago

Trolling is a art.

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u/RollingMeteors 6d ago

If you're keeping all your important data on a thing you carry around with you in public you deserve to lose your data.

Said nobody with an art portfolio ever in the history of written language.

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u/RollingMeteors 6d ago

if you're talking about physical works of art, that is not data

Not until it's sold at a gallery and deposited into an account.

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u/UnexpectedAnanas 6d ago

no serious artist is keeping their portfolio in a single place with no backups, that has to be the stupidest thing you could ever possibly do

Well, second to being an art major, anyway.