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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by kridsdale1 on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:21PM (#49072782)
Why not have a passcode that boots in to a second “safe for cops to look at” partition?
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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by inigyou on Monday July 27, 2026 @01:27PM (#49072843)
That partition will always be obviously out of date and obviously not the main partition.
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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai... by Cider9986 on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:17PM (#49090717)
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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