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Strings

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With the recent opinion from the CA Supreme Court (allowing police to go through an arrested suspect's phone), I'm curious how long before someone creates a "brick on demand" app for the Android. Or, is something like that already out there?

Not looking for this myself: topic came up on another forum, and I had a "Hmmm?" moment...
 
What's the need? You can just go into settings> privacy and do a factory data reset and pop out your SD card if there's anything incriminating on that.
 
^you can't do that if the cops already have your phone. This ruling lets them take it from you if it is "on your person" without a warrant.
 
Strings said:
With the recent opinion from the CA Supreme Court (allowing police to go through an arrested suspect's phone), I'm curious how long before someone creates a "brick on demand" app for the Android. Or, is something like that already out there?

Not looking for this myself: topic came up on another forum, and I had a "Hmmm?" moment...
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There is a "wipe now" option in Wave Secure and I would expect other security programs offer something similar. I don't know of any "one-click" solutions for wiping a phone however.

One might do well to always use a PIN, password or pattern to lock the phone when the screen turns off. Yeah, it's a bit of an inconvenience at times, but remember that just because the police here in California can legally check out your phone, they cannot compel you to turn over the information to unlock the phone.
 
While the police can not, if I remember correctly a judge can order you to turn over passwords or encryption keys.
 
I'm sorry.. My Alzheimer's is acting up again. What were we talking about?

Trust me if the police want the info on your phone and they have it in their possession they do not need the password or pin. They will have software available to them to access it.
 
Gigglephart said:
I'm sorry.. My Alzheimer's is acting up again. What were we talking about?

Trust me if the police want the info on your phone and they have it in their possession they do not need the password or pin. They will have software available to them to access it.
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But they won't find anything if you've had a chance to wipe it/brick it remotely over the internet with MyLookout.com before their whizzkids have an opportunity to sit down with it to tinker. Imo that would give you a 24 hour window minimum... but realistically more probably 2 weeks! It is the police, after all! :D

And it is also a police state.
 
See, if I were going to be involved in some kind of criminal enterprise, where I had to have incriminating data on my phone (or it was just possible that such would be there), I would look for (or even develop) an app to allow the phone to be bricked remotely.

Have one person "on watch": if they hear you're picked up, or get a call from you (you ARE still entitled to one phone call), the phone becomes a paper-weight.

Hmmm... actually, I wonder how often the police will get the story of "I need to get the number for my call off of my cell"?
 
It's so incredibly easy to recover data from an SD card if it has only been deleted. You have to overwrite the data on each sector (multiple times is better) to make it difficult.

Nobody here ever accidentally deleted photos from their camera and used software to recover them later?

I don't think a remote wipe really does anything but delay the inevitable, unless the wiping program also overwrites all sectors of the SD card many times. That would take a while though.
 
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