cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/67529
The Department of Justice is trying to prosecute a man allegedly involved in the movement against Atlanta’s Cop City for using a “duress” password on his smartphone that reportedly wiped its contents, in a seemingly unprecedented line of prosecution as the Trump administration expands its methods of criminalizing those with left-wing beliefs. According to The Guardian, the defendant…
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Huh. Unless the phone was jail broken, it seems like it just gave up the ghost for no reason then.
Who said anything about an iPhone?
Omg you’re right. Sorry about that.
Yah, it was a GrapheneOS phone. It’d be really nice if the duress code just opened a stock “profile” to fool the uniformed fool.
I think both options would be good.
That would likely require additional hardware to pull off. To display a bogus profile the phone would need to read from the storage device, which would still be unreadable because the actual PIN needed to decrypt it would not yet have been entered. Therefore a secondary storage device would have to be available to display the bogus profile without having to unlock the contents of the primary storage device.
The only issue with that is that when they grab the cellebrite and plug it in it will be able to extract the real data along with the fake profile. I think having both options would be great - the one you’ve described so that you can hand your phone to a friend or stranger who needs to use it, and the full-wipe method for when law enforcement demands it.
Not a full wipe. Have the phone keep track of files and apps flagged by the user. Have one friend code that hides the flagged items, and one duress code that deletes the flagged items but leaves the rest of the phone as is.