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[USA] Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone (reason.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Luckily GrapheneOS has a duress passowrd feature. Very useful for these situatuons!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I didn't know that. Is that in settings somewhere?

Edit: yep, see it now. Damn this must be new or I never looked into it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's new as of about 1-2 months ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It was released with the 2024053100 build, so not even a month ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How does it work? Can someone use a specified finger to trigger the password requirement?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Nore information at: https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Passcode. Not fingerprint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah. Then I guess I don't see how this is related to the post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's not, technically, but if I have sensitive documents on my phone and a law officer is trying to get me to unlock my phone, I will be entering and/or putting the duress code into my phone. GrapheneOS has 'lockdown' button by 'restart' and 'shutdown' all of which will require a passphrase to unlock, even if you normally have fingerprint enabled for X hours each time of use.

So it's semi-related in that GrapheneOS protects against this type of attack.