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[USA] Appeals court rules that cops can physically make you unlock your phone (reason.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Boozilla@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How does it work? Can someone use a specified finger to trigger the password requirement?

[–] aa1@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Nore information at: https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

[–] Syn_Attck 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Passcode. Not fingerprint.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah. Then I guess I don't see how this is related to the post.

[–] Syn_Attck 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's not, technically, but if I have sensitive documents on my phone and a law officer is trying to get me to unlock my phone, I will be entering and/or putting the duress code into my phone. GrapheneOS has 'lockdown' button by 'restart' and 'shutdown' all of which will require a passphrase to unlock, even if you normally have fingerprint enabled for X hours each time of use.

So it's semi-related in that GrapheneOS protects against this type of attack.