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TLDR: Drug dealers in Catalonia have started to adopt GrapheneOS en masse leading to Catalan police suspecting anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer

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[–] realitista@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What happens if I turn it back on but don't unlock it? Are the encryption keys in memory?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

They're not in memory until the first unlock, that's why there's the AFU vs BFU distinction for cellebrite unlocking devices incl iPhones.

But as the other person said, they can seize your phone and refuse entry. If you need to travel to the USA annually and you don't want them to see your shit, you may want to have a decoy phone that's not logged into your real accounts or have many photos on it. Just enough to make it believable it's your real phone, but not enough to help them forge anything on you.

[–] realitista@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I am a non-resident US citizen so I believe it would be more difficult for them to search and hold me without trial or legal representation. But these days anything is possible.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] realitista@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

By luck of birth I'm pale as a ghost, so as long as they don't unlock my phone and find out what I really think, I should be good. Then I can get back out of the shithole of a country Trump has created as soon as I'm done there.