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[–] 129 points 9 months ago* (21 children)

If anyone is interested in having a feature to wipe your phone, GRAPHENEOS has a duress pin option that will wipe your phone from the lock screen and leave only the OS installed. AFAIK this us only available on Google Pixel devices like the gentleman in the article had.

https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    My work phone has enabled "wipe if pin is wrong three times".

    I discovered after my son wiped it three times. I must though it was defective and asked for replacement

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Yeah, I think it needs to be "wipe if a specific pin is entered", so you can wipe it only when you intend to.

    Side note, my son has called the cops on several occasions by hitting the emergency button on the lock screen. Kids just have to play with it...

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Side note, my son has called the cops on several occasions by hitting the emergency button on the lock screen. Kids just have to play with it...

    I've almost done this on several occasions by locking my phone and putting it in my pocket while the screen was still on. Happened way too easily.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    My phone has that thing where it tries to detect a car crash and dials 911 and messages your emergency contact.

    Dropped my phone down some stairs didn't realize it went off till the cops and fire department showed up...

    That was awful.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    It'd be fascinating to see how this plays out in the courts.

    Technically it'd be the officers themselves performing the wipes, right? Could you say you got the pins mixed up in your head and get away with it?

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  • [+] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    So maybe you can do something that relies on them fucking it up. Set the lock to, for example, 43o1. Set the duress pin to 4301.

    If asked for the pin, say "four three oh one". Chances are good they'll interpret the "oh" as a 0. They can play back any recordings they have as evidence, and you'll clearly be on record saying something that was not the pin they typed in. You did not mislead them.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Fl*rida just made it a misdemeanor to cover your license plate with materials that prevent those fucking Flock cameras from scanning it

    That's not even remotely new. It's been illegal to cover a licence plate with anything that obstructs it being read, manually or otherwise, for as long as we've had licence plates.

    They may have tweaked the language a little here and there; but that law has always been around in some form.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Well one could possibly coat the license plate with a material that left those cameras unable to scan the plate, while any human could read it just fine, not even knowing there was something different about it. I would be totally in favor of that.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I think the prosecutor is going to drop the charges because I don't think he broke a law. So we'll not find out..

    But also, the defendant doesn't have to prove anything and would probably be wise not to testify in court. If you decide that you're going to testify at all, then they can ask you a lot of other questions that you probably don't want to answer. So almost all of the time you should shut the fuck up. :-)

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