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by itscrush 442 days ago
Certainly doable, grapheneOS has it https://grapheneos.org/features#duress.
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I really want to respond to the dead comment under this.

Setting a duress password is not tedious.

AFAIK the justification for them to say "don't rely on adblockers for security/privacy" is that you can be more easily fingerprinted and those adblock lists are a moving target, vs. having better sandbox capabilities in the browser.

The rest is conjecture I don't have the motivation to debate at the moment.

As for the rest of the article... just get a second phone if this is a major concern, or wipe the phone and have it be perfectly clean when you go through customs. The only thing you need to remember is the password + a single TOTP backup code (write that one down maybe) to restore your cloud password safe (which you should have) then you can get access to all your other data from there.

More easily fingerprinted by which blocked script or request? (Personally I prefer a whitelist on these.)

If they rely on phoning home, such as a comparison of requests on different access, that's some top notch log analysis. Expensive too, compared to just running JS.