US is a dystopia

Ideally, sure. I don't think most people assume it's safe here, at least not anymore. I'd wager that most people, if they had the option, wouldn't come here lol it's not like only tourists are coming through the border.

Yeah, people have their own threat model and trade-offs they're willing to make for security/convenience and it's probably a lot lower for most people than if they knew more about the landscape and gave it careful thought. It sounds like other mobile devices might reencrypt after reboot. IDK about the pw v. bio, though, but if it's like Grap.OS just convincing them to reboot their device before going through TSA checkpoints or other areas where their device might get confiscated may improve their security with minimal effort.

They charged people with terrorism for using Signal chat.

https://grapheneos.org/features#duress

Graphene OS Team has developed quite a lot of other useful features and some of them have even been merged into upstream AOSP allowing others also the benefits. Recent example is contact scope for apps starting Android 17 but it was initially developed by GrapheneOS team long ago.

I'd say the consequences of not coming are easier to endure than being beaten and left to rot in a concentration camp with no due process.

That choice is a privilege in itself. Tell that to those who have loved ones dying in dystopian US hospitals.

lol that'd be a neat uno reverse card right there

you... you deleted my data?? shocked pikachu face

-That, and the 5th amendment.

If you're in this situation, don't say this. You are under no obligation to explain anything, and anything you say will be used against you (and will not be used to defend you). Just shut the fuck up.

Just put a note in your wallet that says cell password with the distress pin. You didn't give them the pin their illegal search uncovered it.

It's 100 miles. They claim 100 miles from the boarder and now "the board" is including international airports.

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

For people that don't want to be dragging into a civil rights case, can you set up a dummy interface that looks used, but doesn't have any too important available? Like you only owned the phone for a week?

Yeah, I bought my pixel specifically to run Graphene. Hope the Motorola devices come sooner that later, so one has a bit of a choice

You can setup different users on GrapheneOS and switch between them.

There is also a "private area" in the bottom of the app list where you can move sensitive apps and password protect them.

Either way, allowing a malicious actor into that profile exposes more attack surface for them to exploit.

Idk. Security is a journey, not a destination.

Yeah, you're right

Would be great if there was a feature that detects a clone and start zeroing itself. Or start flipping bits every few seconds/random intervals in a way that just seems like nand in early stages of failing (maybe even give false drive health data). Though I have zero understanding of the cloning processes, and imagine that it would quickly be something they would have their own detectors and mitigations.

But can't just stop trying to make it harder/frustrating for anyone trying to access all our digital lives. They already get around our rights with how they just go ask the companies like Microsoft to get people's Bitlocker keys (which even most people seem to not even be aware of having until Windows breaks).