Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days
lol@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours agoI’m generally aware of all that, but I don’t see how it answers the question. Why can’t you just stop all app processes, unmount the relevant partition(s), clear any memory containing cryptographic keys etc. but not actually reboot?
Rebooting just seems like a very roundabout, slow and inefficient way to get back to that initial state you describe.
Rebooting just seems like a very roundabout, slow and inefficient way to get back to that initial state you describe.
It’s exactly what the reboot process is designed to do; return you to that fully encrypted pre-boot state. There would be no purpose to implementing a second method that does the exact same thing.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
its done that way because at a reboot all memory is lost, and it can’t happen that something slips through because there is a bug or some miscalculation