ONYX v1.5-beta: Emergency PIN with a full decoy environment
Released v1.5-beta of ONYX, and one of the things we added is Emergency PIN support.
A secondary PIN opens a completely separate decoy environment instead of your real account. You configure what's in it — chats, avatars, display names — so it looks like a normal, lived-in account. There's no visual indicator that it's a decoy.
The use case is straightforward: situations where you're pressured into unlocking your messenger. The Emergency PIN is kept entirely separate from your main PIN and can be changed at any time.
- GitHub: https://github.com/wardcore-dev/onyx/releases/tag/v1.5-beta
- Website: https://onyx.wardcore.com/
Happy to answer questions.
Decoy environments only work if a) there’s plausible deniability for having the feature enabled, b) the contents of the decoy are realistic and c) the decoy environment has a consistent timeline of activity up to the present.
If any of those isn’t true, it just provides probable cause to dig deeper.