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1. Cider9986 · 1790869574 · focus · HN ↗

   For those who don't know, automatic reboot restarts your device if you haven't unlocked it in a set amount of time. Cellebrite and other digital forensics companies are able to get into AFU devices much more often. The automatic reboot feature was first introduced by GrapheneOS and was later added to iOS and stock Pixels.

   GrapheneOS's default is 18 hours and it can be set to between 10 minutes and 72 hours. iPhones and Stock pixels have it non customizable at 72 hours.

   On GrapheneOS, for privacy and convenience, it's best to use a long random passphrase [1] for your primary unlock and then a fingerprint with a second factor pin as the secondary unlock. You enter the passphrase every time the device restarts.

   If you're encountering someone that's going to seize your phone, try to restart/shut it down yourself so you don't have to trust the AFU protections.

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   1. 23ahGa17 · 1790870652 · focus · HN ↗

      People believed the reboot feature last time GrapheneOS was mentioned. It is of course nonsense.

      Shut down the phone in areas with a high snatch risk. That means during landing for example, because the aircraft can be boarded covertly if on the ground.

      1. 3128128 · 1790885340 · focus · HN ↗

         GrapheneOS is critical infrastructure. Questioning it is not like criticizing Neovim. People can get detained, killed and more.

         Perhaps the reflexive genius downvoters can explain what happened to Richard Medhurst? After his phone was snatched and the authorities pretended not to be able to decrypt it, he went on a GrapheneOS promotion spree on X and wanted to write a book about computer security.

         Now he has disappeared for nearly 6 weeks. How many more people do you want to get in trouble with your false promises?

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