As a member of the intelligence community, I can almost guarantee that this is directed at the increased use of Cellebrite UFED hardware, specifically putting the device back into BFU mode, which removes cryptography-related memory allocations. This is also why you're asked for your password instead of face or fingerprint upon reboot.
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
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I don’t know how Cellebrite is a legally operating company. Their entire business model is a violation of the computer fraud and abuse act.
Cellebrite is developed in Israel, a country that legally shouldn't even exist, and is known for genocide, crime, espionage, manipulation and propaganda, more war crimes, illegal settlements, using their intelligence agency to assassinate political opponents abroad, etc.
The so-called "only democracy in the middle east"
There is no shortage of reasons to dislike Apple. This isn’t one of them.
There is a scene in Mr Robot where Darlene is able to do a full wipe on her phone without even looking at the screen.
I wish I was that good.
I want a way that I can trigger this from the main lock screen without unlocking the phone.
Like a specific pin you have to enter twice to trigger the full wipe.
GrapheneOS has this. I believe it's called a Duress PIN.
Law enforcement shouldn't be able to get into someone's mobile phone without a warrant anyway. All this change does is frustrate attempts by police to evade going through the proper legal procedures and abridging the rights of the accused.
Yep! The police, being fascists, HATE this.
They usually do have a warrant or it was seized lawfully.
This is about keeping them out even when it's lawful.
Lawyer. Not true.
Example: An officer pulls someone over and suspects them of something arrestable. Then says "Do you want me to get your personal belongings from your car?"
Any person agreeing to this allows them to hold your phone as evidence indefinitely in the US now.
well it's kind of a selling point. I'm just too used to using android, though.
Edit - there's something for that too, cool!
You can enable lockdown mode. It forces the next unlock to ignore biometrics and require a pin, which police cannot force you to divulge without a warrant. Once enabled, you get a "lockdown mode" option in the menu when you hold down your power button.
If you haven't done this and need the same ability IMMEDIATELY: reboot, or just shut down
Every first boot requires pin same as lockdown
Also: set a nonstandard finger in a weird way as your finger unlock if you wanna use that, then theyre likely to fail to get that to work should you not manage to lock it down beforehand
Finally: there are apps that let you use alternate codes/finger unlocks to wipe/encrypt/reboot the device instead, allowing you to pretend to cooperate with the cops up until they realize they got played
I just don't use biometrics. passcode or fuckoff
IANAL, but I'd be very careful about wiping the phone like that. Sounds a lot like destruction of evidence...
It's not destruction of evidence though because without a warrant the information on the phone isn't evidence, it's just stuff on a phone. Stuff which is your stuff and you have every right to delete it whenever you want.
They would actually have to arrest you and acquire a warrant, try it to getting you to unlock the phone for it to be "evidence".
The police would have a very hard time in court saying that there was evidence on the phone when they can't produce any documentation to indicate they had any reason to believe this to be the case. Think about the exchange with the judge.
"Your honor this individual wiped their phone, thus destroying evidence"
"Very well, may I see the warrant?"
"Yeah... Er... Well about that..."
It doesn't matter what the police may think you have done, if they don't go via the process the case will be dismissed on a technicality. They hate doing that but they don't really have a choice.
So many words to explain how you literally have no clue about how the law works.