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Cider9986today at 3:07 PM1 replyview on HN

Powering down or restarting is ideal because BFU is much more secure.

Although, based on the latest Cellubrite leaks, GrapheneOS can't be exploited in AFU either.

There's also the reboot timer which brings the device to a BFU state. GrapheneOS implemented it and then Google and apple implemented their own version with fixed timers. GrapheneOS's is configurable down to 10 minutes, the default is 18 hours. On iPhones and Androids it's fixed at 72 hours.

One thing I wish they had in GrapheneOS was a faster shortcut to shutdown. Afaik currently you need to press physical button and then confirm on screen.


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t1234stoday at 6:52 PM

they need a shortcut where you triple tap the power button and it just does a fast hard power off similar to removing the battery.