Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoIt makes it harder for law enforcement or others to access the phone without knowing the pin
Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days
jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoIt makes it harder for law enforcement or others to access the phone without knowing the pin
truxnell@infosec.pub 10 months ago
And from my reading, helps secure against a situation where an police officer (AKA attacker in the US apparently…) coerces you to unlock the phone (or perhaps even just takes it off you in a locked, but active state), and stores it in a faraday bag with a charger. They do that to keep it ‘alive’ so their experts can break in - a dead-mans reboot can help circumvent even that (as it will just reboot and restore itself to an encrypted rest state, which is much harder to attack)