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Interesting article about Medhurst and his use of GrapheneOS. Apparently he failed to turn off his phone before UK police boarded his plane and seized it from him, but the auto reboot feature protected his data and sources. The article also mentions that he's now in the process of writing a massive guide to security and privacy for journalists.

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[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“They then tried to offer me journalistic privilege,” which he also flat-out refused.

“The idea was that you tell an ‘independent’ policeman what the passcode is, and where all the privileged documents and contacts are, then they sift through them to decide what to pass to the prosecution,” he says.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 11 points 2 weeks ago

What a coincidence that this """independent""" police officer decided to turn over everything to the prosecution! shocked-pikachu

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The auto reboot is on an 18 hour timer in graphene and iirc a 72 hour timer in ios.

[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can set it to different timers in Graphene. I have my timer set at 5 hours I think, so it always restarts when I'm sleeping

E: There's also timers for WiFi and Bluetooth to turn off when they're not in use (in the range of a few minute to hours) which is neat too

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

One advice I heard for travelling internationally is to keep your devices clean and have your files encrypted on a server.

Of course a server can be seized too but for crossing a border it's lower risk than having encrypted files on a device you are carrying.