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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by XorNot on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:29PM (#36133055)
Honestly this is where the current phone industry is letting us down with soldered on memory though.

This whole strategy depends on the fact that by the time you realize you might not want to have your "real" phone on you, you can't do anything about it.

From a technical perspective we need a phone where you can dump out the main memory chips and swap in a blank firmware image quickly.

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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by nomel on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:04PM (#36133266)
It seems like the "easy" route would be a thin client phone, with just a charge port.
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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by userbinator on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:25PM (#36133415)
It's worth noting that eMMC, which is the used as the "hard drive" of most smartphones, evolved from what was originally a removable media format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiMediaCard

I suspect it's possible to design a phone which entirely uses removable storage, but beyond devboard-like systems, I'm not aware of any.

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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by catherd on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @02:47AM (#36135257)
I'm working on a phone which can be configured to dump the memory if someone fails to unlock it properly, keeping only a dummy profile.

There is also a way to restore the deleted info from a backup server once you have the phone back.

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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by rblatz on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @10:47PM (#36133922)
In what world is it faster to tear apart your phone swap in random spare blank chips and turn it back on then to ask your phone to wipe its security key and mark all space as free?
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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by XorNot on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @11:44PM (#36134244)
True: a decent chunk of my annoyance is Android still doesn't have an "exact restore" function for it. A wiped android doesn't get all it's apps and my home screen organization back.
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