Post #566946

2026-03-07 07:41 UTC

If the air-gapped phone is stolen, is guessing the PIN to unlock the phone the only thing stopping the thief from spending the victim’s money at that point?

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@corvus@lemmy.ml 2026-03-07 15:05

There are a couple of things you can do: Hide the app from the app drawer. To open the app you have to go to settings and look for the complete app listing which include system apps. Search how to hide the app for your particular android version. Connect the phone to the computer and install the wallet as a system app using adb. Being a system appt you can disable it from the app’s context menu and the app will not be visible. To open it you have to enable it from the settings. In both cases is extremely improbable that someone that grabs it will start to look for hidden or disabled apps in an old and seemingly discarded phone. That’s why NOBODY has to know that you save your keys in this way. Just grab an old phone, the older, cheaper and unatractive the better. Nature teaches us that disguise is the best way to hide. And in case is stolen, you have a good amount of time to move your coins to another wallet.

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