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Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules (arstechnica.com)

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Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules::Phone-unlocking case law is "total mess," may be ripe for Supreme Court review.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Also nice to know, on an iPhone you can press power and volume up for a few second and then cancel the upcoming dialog. It will only be then require your pin to enable any other authentication method.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

On recent almost all Androids from the last decade+ you can reboot them to force a PIN requirement, and lockdown mode is available on most recent Android phones, not just Pixel