truxnell

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[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

And from my reading, helps secure against a situation where an police officer (AKA attacker in the US apparently..) coerces you to unlock the phone (or perhaps even just takes it off you in a locked, but active state), and stores it in a faraday bag with a charger. They do that to keep it 'alive' so their experts can break in - a dead-mans reboot can help circumvent even that (as it will just reboot and restore itself to an encrypted rest state, which is much harder to attack)

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, seems like its a move to follow apple after custom ROMS offering it as a security feature (Im on GrapheneOS and had it set for a while)

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the clarification, I forgot that (somehow)

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 98 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

After a reboot all the data is encrypted and needs a pin/~~fingerprint~~ to unlock. So if it's stolen (or feds get it) a planned reboot resets it to a highly secure state that is much more difficult to hack into than when it's just locked from timeout. Edit: removed fingerprint, corrected below.

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd be a lot more worried about being sent to an El Salvador prison without cause, not just being denied entry

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

Read Anathema last year, really enjoyed it!

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

God I miss this time on the web