You shouldn’t put anything really important in a google/apple phones
Article doesn’t mention how you’re an asshole to all your friends and family if you handed your phone over.
Ethically, you’d need to get consent from every person you took a photo of and every person you’ve ever emailed or messaged. Once you get their permission to pass their data over to the police, only then can you hand your phone to them without being an asshole.
Unless they’re installing implants, it should be safe to turn it off first.
What?
What are they gonna do with a phone that’s off?
Install implants?
I was mostly confused by your original comment before you fixed the typos
The article is about using your phone as JD…why would you turn it off if you’re trying to show a police officer your ID?
Yeah that’s dumb as shit. The only reason you wouldn’t want to turn off your phone immediately before you have an interaction with police is if you plan to film them
get a cheap decoy phone and exclusively use it for watching mukbang videos and messaging “your ex” (you) to take you back
I also add: don’t talk to the cops. They are there to look for anything to incriminate you
Or learn about app pinning (android) and guided access (iOS)
App pinning has an explicit warning that “personal data may be accessible” and “pinned apps may open other apps”. I mean, it’s better than nothing, but I’d prefer not to rely on it anyways.
It’s a dull knife. The only thing more dangerous than a sharp knife, is a dull one.
It’s a cop, not a child. All it takes is for them to connect your phone to an external device.
… and bypass such sandboxing?
I’ve long held that my phone is a single point of failure and that I should be able to function without it. So I don’t do banking on my phone, I still carry a wallet even if I do have Apple Pay and I will certainly carry physical identification until I’m legally unable to.
I unfortunately have the same feeling. Around Iphone 4 or so (when they were a lot smaller and sleeker) I got a slim phone case that could hold a card and my ID. It felt so nice going on a trip with only that in my pocket (not having to worry about if I feel my wallet in my back pocket, etc) but I couldn’t get over the fact that if I lost the phone I would be utterly screwed and a long way from home. Tend to always have a back-up now adays since I don’t want to have to put up with that.
Use distress pin. Wipes the phone. Restart from backup.
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