Post #50242

2025-12-10 21:17 UTC

At least on an iPhone, if the device has been unlocked since powering on, then forensic tools such as Cellebrite’s can extract information from the phone. The absolute safest bet is to perform a wipe. If this person is an activist then he’s an easy target and likely knew to be prepared for such an interrogation with our current fascist administration.

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@mkwt@lemmy.world 2025-12-10 21:55

The absolute safest bet is to perform a wipe. This may be effective at preventing the government from accessing the data. But as we see, the law, including the 5th amendment, doesn’t protect from legal exposure to obstruction-type charges. Or lying to the cops type charges if you say you’ll unlock the phone, but then you actually wipe the phone.

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@Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2025-12-10 22:15

Absolute safest is a wipe but just powering off the phone means they won’t be able to access anything without a PIN (protected by the 5th amendment). There’s no laws against turning your phone off.

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@bearboiblake__dup_9904@pawb.social 2025-12-11 07:03

GrapheneOS has a feature which automatically restarts the phone if it hasn’t been interacted with after some user-configurable delay. For example, you could configure the phone to automatically reboot if it hasn’t been used for an hour. This way, even if my phone is seized, that reboot timer is ticking. Once it reboots, the encryption on the phone is basically unbreakable.

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