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Re:Florida man jailed for failing to unlock his phone by SmallDeadGuy on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:33AM (#17548205)
A better solution, maybe doable on jailbroken/rooted phones, would be to have one pin unlock into normal mode and one pin to unlock into a mode with all sensitive information hidden but looks like the normal mode.

Again, I wouldn't advise actually doing this, but I like theorising.

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Re:Florida man jailed for failing to unlock his phone by mc32 on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:25PM (#17550839)
Japanese handis had that feature. Guys, especially, used them for their secret affairs and other things they wanted to keep under wraps.
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Re:Florida man jailed for failing to unlock his phone by splintercell on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:31PM (#17551920)
What's 'Japanese handis'? Googled it but couldn't find anything on it.
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Re:Florida man jailed for failing to unlock his phone by mc32 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @12:00AM (#17555496)
To get to the point, I think it was the systems that had a "2 in 1" with two PINs and you could unlock your "second phone" with the second pin and then make and receive calls from this hidden second number. Burner numbers I guess have replaced that need though.
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Re:Florida man jailed for failing to unlock his phone by mc32 on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:23PM (#17552979)
Sorry short for personal handy phone system or PHS, also known locally as keitai[1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mobile_phone_cultur...

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Re:Florida man jailed for failing to unlock his phone by pasbesoin on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @07:58PM (#17554567)
In Germany, a mobile phone is called a "handy" (or, Handy, as it's a noun).

I'm extrapolating that that term (beyond a German context, or maybe the commenter is German) is being used, here.

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