I like the idea of a phone that automatically wipes itself if I don’t act to stop it. I wonder about the legality of that if the duress code is considered “destroying evidence.”
replyOr keep it in a faraday bag and have the phone wipe if it sees it. If you're ever searched (or otherwise indisposed), they'll open the bag and wipe your phone for you.
replyThis depends on the beacon being visible. If they just take the phone and walk away, because that's where they think the evidence is, it won't wipe.
replyI used to contribute to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USBKill
replyAh I recall I used to see the creator around :) thanks for your work!
replyRegarding the motivation for usbkill mentioned in the article: I too was motivated to think on this stuff in relation to my sense of injustice around Ross Ulbrecht, and wanting to think of some way that someone in his position could avoid getting caught. One creative variant in my thinking involved embedding the BLE beacon inside a rubber ball that could be launched and lost track of. Or maybe embedded in heel of a shoe and ditched in transit haha
With no third party apps you can set an iPhone to wipe itself after 10 failed passcode attempts.
replytfw face when I leave my phone on the table and go to the restaurant bathroom only to return to a brand new squeaky clean factory reset
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