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Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules (arstechnica.com)

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Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules::Phone-unlocking case law is "total mess," may be ripe for Supreme Court review.

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[-] nosnahc@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

An app can clear your phone with a specific password, can't remember the name...

[-] pizzawithdirt@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Wasted on F-Droid.

[-] alexdeathway@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Can you suggest any app, which gives more flexibility in what to erase?

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 months ago

That app supports this, which can be granular

https://guardianproject.info/code/panickit/

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