So this is super sucky and likely to spread. Alternate source. Key points, at roadside stops etc, people are required to give access to their phones using Cellebrite Israeli phone crackers, likely to download a complete image. No limits placed on data retention, no noted protection against Cellebrite having unfettered access.

Has it gotten to the point where we should be striving to keep only a minimum viable configuration on phones and have some sort of searchable backup on a home server, or even an out of country VPS? Anyone got any suggestions on how to achieve this?

Having GrapheneOS doesn't help much when it's a ten year felony to refuse access. AFAIK it's still a warrant to get access to your home computer, for now.

This may get shot down in the courts, but that won't help much if it happens to you in the meantime, this stuff is forever. The right to digital privacy has the price of eternal vigilence, but they just keep raising the bar on how onerous that vigilence is.

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[–] 16 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

Having GrapheneOS doesn't help much when it's a ten year felony to refuse access

It's my interpretation that "access" means you have to give them your phone physically. Otherwise Cellebrite wouldn't be needed

people are required to give access to their phones using Cellebrite Israeli phone crackers

We know Cellebrite can't crack GrapheneOS.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 months ago*

    We know Cellebrite can’t crack GrapheneOS.

    Yah, one of the reasons gOS is hated and I have it :) but you know Cellebrite is looking for that zero day. Still an issue for the other 99.9%.

    It’s my interpretation that “access” means you have to give them your phone physically. Otherwise Cellebrite wouldn’t be needed

    Your lips to gods ears... But until it's clarified legally the pessimistic interpretation is you have to unlock it (otherwise impeding an investigation or some shit) and then they use Cellebrite to suck it dry.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Great job. I wonder if this passes, if NSW police will celebrate by strip searching more kids at central station.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    What if run android vm at home and stream to phone only, no data on there? Or every app launch through ssh with something like xpipe/waypipe/wprs? Basically put real phone at home and only carry thin client.

    If no data to extract what they do?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Interesting, might be an option. Likely Cellebrite can pull your ssh key though, but OTP or something plus kill switch, maybe. Worth thinking about.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Wait, like every rest stop you go to will have a cop waiting there for you, to check your phone. Like in a line?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I guess its time to wipe phones at every roadside stop. Hope the backup works!

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    If an authoritarian regime doesn't like you, it doesn't matter what you say. You can "be careful" all you like, and they will find other spurious reasons to abuse you (such as accent, parentage, skin color, sexual orientation, etc.). It might change who they go after first, but operating within their guidelines is not some guarantee of safety.

    No, your best bet is to be loud, proud, and to join with others and tear down the system that enables this kind of abuse. We do not need to accept this as inevitable.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Put simply, there are advantages to appearing unthreatening, stupid, and boring.

    I agree, but anyone with the same notion should ask themselves: are you appearing to be all those things, or are you just trying to convince yourself that you're more than that? Because unless you're actually doing something useful in secret, I submit that you're actually just unthreatening, stupid, and/or boring.

    And to be clear, I'm using a royal "you," not directing that at any one person.

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    [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    for anyone who is interested https://grapheneos.org/ is a great OS and allows you to play neat games, also lets your phone battery last longer

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