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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I didn’t even know iPhones had this functionality.
They don’t.
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.