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0 pointsgeofft5y ago0 comments

> In other words power + volume up means the key to unlock your phone is in your head, not at the end of your finger or your face.

That's not relevant to the specific request that was linked here (and that's why I think Google was right to close it, this is for one very specific use case and one very specific mechanism of solving it that may or may not actually work):

"In my country (Russia, if you interested) policy try to force political activist unlock their smartphones for collect more evidence. They use tortures and threats of tortures for this. If you you can`t unlock because it wiped they don`t have motivation to use tortures."

That is, the phone already doesn't have biometric auth, and the police will (allegedly) happily torture you until you reveal the unlock PIN.

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m4635y ago

> That's not relevant to the specific request that was linked here

Sort of accurate. The "in your head" part is mostly relevant to the United States 5th amendment, where you cannot be compelled by the court to reveal your pin.

So if you live in the United States, they are similar in practical if not technical terms.

If you live in Russia? You're going to need google to fix that.

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