In light of recent ICE/DHS shenanigans in the US
Most people lock their phones with biometrics which can be legally compelled from you.
If you use a password you can refuse to provide it.
If you’re living in a world where the police are willing to literally drug and torture you then your digital security requirements are beyond the scope of what you can get from social media and you should assume that everything you do is publicly known.
Both iPhone and Android have ways to disable biometrics until the next unlock via password/code.
Iirc, on iPhone, it was pushing the power button 5 (or 7?) times. On Android, long press the power button and select “lock”.
I configured my Graphene OS to require both fingerprint and passcode to unlock. I also have a “duress passcode” that I can input to wipe the device.
Is it possible to setup this way;:
- One password gets into your first profile that is protected with a
- Duress passcode
- 2nd password/just fingerprint gets you into a 2nd profile, that is, everything you don’t care about…
I haven’t tried graphene but thinking about it now…
I have a 2nd profile for all the KYC stuff that I need.
Press the power button and one of the volume buttons for 3 seconds.
I use biometrics for apps and such, but not my phone. Having worked apple support, the number of people who only used their fingerprint and their phone was restarted for whatever reason leading them to have to know their password, which they forgot… is numerous.
I suppose this is why Android occasionally refuses to take your fingerprint and says “for your security, enter your password.”
iOS does this as well so I have no idea how people manage to forget their passcodes
so… dummy phone? even before that, don’t they have access to your cloud stuff?
They have access to it if they threaten/indimidate/blackmail you into giving them access. Dummy phones are a real thing; saw a post today on masto by a company… person (?) who said they keep a stash of clean burner phones for when employees travel through US borders. These are all reasonable, and maybe even CalyxOS’s decoy partition (does it still have that?). The larger problem is that few people will use these things, not even bringing a clean phone. And once they start threatening your family and your long-term safety and freedom, it’s highly likely you’ll give them access, if they know there is any access to be had. Which they increasingly do, because universal surveillance blah blah.
i meant more with nsa type surveillance, they pretty much have a little leg on every us corporation. it seems they really want to start utilizing that data more against its own populace now.
also they have cyberweapons that can exploit their way inside most common phones anyway.
and your google searches plus dns queries.
Law enforcement have tools that crack both Android and Apple phones en seconds.
