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by deadbabe 2 days ago
I don’t understand why phones can’t just have decoy profiles you can activate via PIN that look like regular harmless user profiles? Especially now with AI you can quickly populate with a bunch of plausible data.

Or better, have PIN for taking you to your criminal/secret profile instead.

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They would like to but it's not possible to make a robust feature like that because of low-level architecture of SSDs. Implementing a detectable solution would give people a false sense of security.

Also they can plant evidence if you unlock the phone.

https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/2081471477174456340#m

How would it work? Isn't it easy for the authorities to check the list of users on the device?
The PIN you enter determines what profile opens up, and they are not connected to each other at all, they are isolated.