An app on the phone that is triggered by calling a phone number. You get robbed, call the number and it wipes the phone. Just a thought.
When I was in the UK recently, I heard a few first-hand experiences of mobile phone thefts by force, which resulted in a lot of financial and emotional harm. The police are dealing with record-high cases of "theft from the person (https://www.ft.com/content/26be349d-4717-4815-a221-a749e29de2b2)" events. When you think about it, if someone threatens to cut off your arm with a machete unless you hand over your unlocked phone you are probably going to do it, unless you are Jackie Chan..! So I started looking into how to mitigate the harm if something like this happened to me. This took me down a massive rabbit hole about personal security and privacy practices, and having addressed the original threat thanks to nostr:npub1235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ksdg0ht5, I'm now actively reducing my reliance on big tech, aka surveillance capitalism, which is all part of becoming a more #selfsovereign individual.
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Does this exist? Good idea, but to work the attacker would need to keep cellular service turned on. With #GOS you can set up separate user profiles to 'hide' sensitive app's or data. Plus they have recently introduced a duress pin, which wipes the phone if entered.
Yeah just an idea, doesn't exist. I thought Graphene did have that duress feature, I was just thinking of a way to do it remotely if you didn't have time. Graphene is looking like a good bet.