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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by sofixa on Monday July 27, 2026 @08:17AM (#49068572)
Xiaomi phones have/had a feature where depending on which finger you unlock the phone with, it can hide certain applications/folders on the filesystem.
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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by Cider9986 on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:13PM (#49090674)
Not possible to be robust unfortunately due to low level SSD architecture[1] and other reasons:

https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/2082153517234676150#m

[1] https://veracrypt.io/en/Trim%20Operation.html

https://veracrypt.io/en/Wear-Leveling.html

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