Is all this inconvenient? Absolutely. But it’s the only sane course of action when you consider the gravity of your data falling into the wrong hands.

I’ll admit:

While I’m not too “gung-ho” over privacy wonks and how obsessed people are with it (I already take my chances and know the risks) this seems like an escalation.

Okay, I’m all ears:

I’m a Communist Party member so how do I make sure this doesn’t happen? Any other ways?

  • 🏳️‍⚧️ Elara ☭
    12•1 year ago

    If you have a PinePhone or PinePhone Pro, there’s a simple solution. You can have two OSes installed at the same time. One on an SD card and one on the phone’s built-in eMMC. If you’re ever forced to provide a password, you can use a bootloader like Tow-Boot, which allows you to boot off of the SD card by holding the volume down button. Then, you can just provide the password to that alternate OS and they can look at it all they want, they’ll find nothing, and anything they install will be confined to that SD card, which you can easily wipe once you arrive, or just discard it and get a new one because small SD cards are really cheap.