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Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones

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  1. delichon · · focus · HN ↗
    I keep all of my most sensitive personal documents on my phone, as an emergency backup, but in an encrypted (Cryptomator) volume that requires a separate password. Given the routine news of such exploits this seems like due diligence.

    As I understand it this encryption is a significant additional barrier to technical or legal access to those files. If someone knows otherwise, please let me know. Being wrong could cost me my home and life savings.

    1. pieter_mj · · focus · HN ↗
      If you travel abroad you must unlock. No 4th amendment for you.
      1. jstanley · · focus · HN ↗
        This is mostly FUD. I've never been asked to unlock my phone when travelling abroad.
        1. Havoc · · focus · HN ↗
          Dismissing something as false just because you haven’t personally experienced it is quite something
          1. jstanley · · focus · HN ↗
            "If you travel abroad you must unlock" is hardly the central experience. It is FUD.
            1. Havoc · · focus · HN ↗
              No, it's just incredibly bad reasoning. I've not been in a car crash yet, but I don't conclude that therefore talk of road safety is FUD.
              1. jstanley · · focus · HN ↗
                The fact that car crashes are possible does not mean you're going to have a car crash every time you get in a car though? Suggesting that you are is FUD.
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