I really like the convenience of using fingerprint unlock for lockscreen and password manager. I do however don’t like the thought of being forced to unlock both physically.
I use Android with GrapheneOS.
I have set up lockdown, but it takes some time to hold the power button and then click lockdown.
Any creative solutions?
Don’t use biometrics, they are less secure because the code is your finger or face and not a password in your head
If you care about privacy, don’t use biometrics.
It is sad because it is less convenient, but that’s what’s up.
Yeah just don’t use biometrics.
Odds of me getting arrested or stopped and interrogated and involuntary made to unlock my phone are near zero, but I still use a pattern to unlock. IMO pattern is most secure, because it cant easily be described verbally like a pincode, and it gets harder to do the more confused I am, so smacking me round the head or isolation and sleep deprivation would not improve my chances of accidentally describing the pattern. Note that I’m not an activist, criminal, reporter or political adversary, and I live in a very safe and democratic country so the likelihood of these things happening is very slim, but I still put a big emphasis on opsec when it comes to my technology.
A French scientist en route to a conference in Texas was detained upon his arrival at the airport, his phone unlocked and the poor bloke was sent hone without his phone and his computer because apparently he had written bad things about the current president on social media…
I heard of many recent border stories, but this one really sounds like an oppressive regime.
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Ether way the new American government will threaten you with your family’s death until you gave them the password
Since you’re on grapheneos you could always set up the 2 factor unlock when using biometrics. You would then unlock your phone using fingerprint and a pin. This way even if you’re forced to unlock the device they’d still need your secondary pin to unlock. The pin can be much shorter than your main password so its still fast to unlock.
On stock android you can use one factor to unlock the main profile, such as pin
And a second factor to unlock the work profile such as fingerprint.
This way any app in the work profile has two factor protection.
As others have mentioned GOS let’s you specify two factor unlocking. https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/18585-2-factor-fingerprint-unlock-feature-is-now-fully-implemented/
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Disable biometrics.
