[guardian-dev] How to lock, shutdown, wipe phone when grabbed, robbed, theft from hand?

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Fri Aug 17 05:36:11 EDT 2018


These sounds like too good approaches.  The hard part of all these kinds
of systems is making them foolproof.  Accidentally wiping all your data
is no fun.  The best bet is to use a device that is easily and fully
backed up.  Then wiping it is no big deal.

.hc

Josh Conway:
> Another option could require constant connection with the 'net, over say a
> Tor phone-in server. If the connection isn't present for $time, require
> password. If password isn't typed in, phone reboots and you get 30 chances
> of bootup password.
> 
> That way, it would be hard to attack the tor server. And it would be hard
> to spoof the Tor connection to fake-authenticate. And no BTLE or other
> physical devices needed - those can be stolen anyway by "bad actors".
> 
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 9:21 PM, Natanael <natanael.l at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Bluetooth proximity sensor, perhaps smartwatch or other BLE device you can
>> hide on you.
>>
>> Let the phone lock down automatically when out of range.
>>
>>
>> Den tis 14 aug. 2018 21:27Peter Prockers via guardian-dev <
>> guardian-dev at lists.mayfirst.org> skrev:
>>
>>> Imagine the phone is currently unlocked and in oneself hand. What if
>>> someone grabs the phone and runs away?
>>>
>>> Ideally I would like to wipe and shutdown the phone unless aborted with a
>>> PIN which timeout after some amount of time.
>>>
>>> But since there is probably not app yet for wipe and shutdown, is there
>>> at least some app which can turn on the lockscreen when a big movement is
>>> detected?
>>>
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