We should recommend GrapheneOS duress feature for those who need it, discourage the usage of duress apps, and explain why they’re not good and shouldn’t be relied on.

Agreed, think this could have stayed in the same topic. But yes this a good addition and definitely those who used apps for it should move to the built in solution now.

Anyone with some legal background that can advise on the use of this feature? Will you be held accountable for destruction of evidence if you give a wipe PIN when held under custody?

[image] anon48875053: why they’re not good and shouldn’t be relied on. ? Reflections on GrapheneOS' duress feature Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin makes great points

[image] Phone examination and plausible deniability - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum GrapheneOS discussion forum For the plausible deniability you could theoretically design the OS to have two ‘owner’ profiles to choose from a boot and select via the PIN you e…

Yeah I figured that’s probably why it doesn’t exist, but it’d be cool nonetheless if someone was able to figure out a way to make it work.

Keep a paper note with the duress PIN under your phone case. If they wipe it themselves, you’re innocent, lol.

Reminds me of https://libreddit.bus-hit.me/r/darknet/comments/12m8l5a/cop_fucks_himself_over_when_he_accidentally/

Keep good backups, though. You might have a 0.01% chance of your phone being wiped by LE, but you’ll have a 50% chance of it being wiped by a curious relative. @whoami5 But the serious answer is: if you think that’s a real possibility, seek legal advice from a local lawyer. This varies wildly by ju…

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It would have been interesting if you could set a PIN that opens a hidden user profile which looks like the main profile. Similar to VeraCrypt’s plausible deniability function.

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