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PinePhone will boot off a microSD before the internal flash, so you could have a clean OS on the card and your real one on the flash. The SD card is under the b
by opan 26d ago
PinePhone will boot off a microSD before the internal flash, so you could have a clean OS on the card and your real one on the flash. The SD card is under the back cover with the battery and SIM, so chances are they won't think to try to remove it.
- utopiah 26d agoSomebody who doesn't know what they are doing, sure. Somebody who does, and maybe even enjoy doing it, and the challenge of it, will surely know about it simply because they are maybe two dozens of types of smartphones out there. Android (including of course GrapheneOS) based ones, iOS ... then PinePhones, Volla, Purism and few others. So having a guide on how each one can have hidden partitions or booting mechanisms is tractable. Point being that relying on a hidden trick (rather than encryption) is a very risky bet.
- utopiah 26d agoCoincidence but I just started to listen to 404 media podcast on tracking rare books being scanned in AI facilities thanks to just a cheap AirTag. I find this a good illustration of how easy it is to find something if you know how to look for it, and thus again why encryption is the only safe way.