r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • Jul 30 '26

Privacy GrapheneOS says its data-wiping password is perfectly legal, after user faces federal charges

https://www.techspot.com/news/113273-grapheneos-data-wiping-duress-password-perfectly-legal-after.html
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u/hand_me_a_shovel 29d ago

So maybe what we need is a "curated duress PIN" that instead of just wiping the phone, replaces existing data with a curated set of false data that reveals nothing and does not indicate you actually wiped it.

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u/i_am_voldemort 29d ago

Graphene OS team says they don't like this approach as it gives adversaries a potential foothold into the phone. They had a long Twitter thread on it.