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GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search (www.pcmag.com)
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The foundation behind the ultra-secure Android-based OS is speaking out after an activist was indicted for using a 'duress password' to prevent federal agents from searching his phone.

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[–] 31 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Less than a second to make a new partition, unmount the old one, and have a background process start wiping

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    I just realized there are ways you could do plausible deniability.

    What if we keep a decoy partition ready to go? Pre-populate it with some AI-generated slop Facebook account, photos, etc. Keep A small random sample of music files. etc. Something that looks as plausible and bland as possible.

    This is a feature that could get better & better over time. Don't just wipe my old data; make my adversary unaware that there was anything worth wiping.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I could absolutely see this being a thing, veracrypt has an option to create a hidden volume, and the two different passwords open up to two different encrypted volumes. Also if you start writing information to the non-hidden volume, it will start overwriting the hidden volume and corrupting files without any guardrails which is nice

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    What if you were able to pick apps/accounts that mirrors to the decoy partition? Then you have real data, but all the private stuff stays locked away.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    You can already make hidden spaces in graphene!

    Although I think this guy should've just had an alt user active during the search and turned off usb data transfer.

    He shouldn't have been searched, but he should've realized that he probably would be and prepared his device better.

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