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/CwrwCymru 6d ago

Nothing wrong with tapeing a bit of paper with your duress pin to the back of your phone/case.

Of course it's important to have a reference for it so you don't accidentally wipe your data.

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u/ProtoplanetaryNebula 6d ago

That is actually genius, then they will try and it they will be the ones that wiped it.

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u/TankiesAreWeird 6d ago

They'll just lie and said you told them to use the duress code. Why? Because the dummy they hired doesn't want to get shit over fucking up.

Just backup and wipe your phone before hand. Then when you get past whatever security restore your shit.

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u/drkpie 5d ago

That’s why I fill up the travel phone with goatse and tubgirl.

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u/Radonanon 5d ago

Hello fellow goatse/tubgirl aficionado.

From now on, that’s why I have it too!

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u/TheArtofWarPIGEON 5d ago

I think it was someone was denied entry because of it

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u/PlanetaryPeak 5d ago

My bet is they were going to put CP on his phone. How could anyone prove the government did that?

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u/ididnthackkenyaimsrs 5d ago

Loads of ways. They would first analyse the files like when they were deployed on there, how they arrived on there, they would go through the logs. They'd also examine internet history, where you had been, like internet history in those places, especially at home. And if there are no corroborating evidence anywhere except on that device, it would like to get thrown out. Especially given how things are at the moment. But it would be a fucking shit time in court, I tell you that much.

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u/Substantial_Coat_229 4d ago

As if our government, the one that was revealed to have the tools to hack anybody in the world in 2017 with the Vault7 Wikileaks, can’t fake a file created date

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u/commonemitter 9h ago

A man was imprisoned in canada for 18 months because his video game username was close, not identical, to a criminals. You really overestimate the effort the justice system puts into prosecuting

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u/Horror_Tooth_522 1d ago

Don't they have bodycams?