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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For awareness you can achieve the same on CalyxOS by setting it to automatically wipe the phone after either 5 or 10 failed unlock attempts. Though this does mean a child (or childish friend) could do it accidentally. I'd prefer a duress PIN, but then I'd probably forget it if I ever really needed it.

There's also a less nuclear 'panic trigger', that allows you to hide apps or choose to uninstall any apps you like. No PIN needed, simply hold the power button and select 'Panic Trigger', there's then a fullscreen 5 second countdown before your select private/sensitive data is obliterated.. unless you hit cancel. The user can set up in advance what the panic trigger does - eg which apps to uninstall (deleting their data and auth keys), all cloud provider apps with sensitive data such as email apps or cloud storage provider apps are recommended.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For the duress PIN, an easy way to remember it would be to reverse your regular PIN

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

1111

You’re right, that is easy to remember!