• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    Android has an app that you can install that auto wipes a phone after X amount of time if the phone hasnt been unlocked:

    https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.lucky.wasted/

    Also theres an app that allows you to set a fake password that wipes the phone:

    https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.lucky.duress/

    All open source, I have tested these apps on my phones, they work great. The second app about the duress password is a bit glitchy and didnt work on some of my phones.

    Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and setting your phone to automatically wipe itself may be considered destruction of evidence in a court of law.

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        Well they might charge you with “Obstruction of Justice” instead. Then plug it in some cellebrite device and boom, unlocked.

        Best way to not have to deal with stuff like this is just to not have the incriminating evidence in the first place. If you are, for example, doing a protest, only chat with contacts in a safe place, then wipe chat logs every time, any data you wish to keep should be encrypted then uploaded anonymously via VPN/Tor and wiped from local storage. Hide the fact that such data exists so you wouldn’t have a scenario where the government is trying to get you to give them the data, since they dont even know what data exists. Plausable deniability.

        Edit: Those apps I’ve linked is still a good idea since “Destruction of Evidence” is probably a lesser charge than something like “Rioting”.