Security measures when phone lost or stolen

obsessed957

Hi there, I want some advice on what I should do in my phone settings, data in the phone and apps, and what other apps I need to have in case my phone is lost or stolen. How can I avoid someone accessing my personal data, banking app, medical records, etc.? Like remotely erasing my phone, and I will be up and running with a new handset if this happens to me. Thanks.

other8026

obsessed957 having a difficult enough PIN or password is enough. If someone steals the phone and tries many incorrect PINs/passwords, new attempts will be throttled, quickly increasing to amounts of time that'll make guessing pointless. The project suggests 6+ digit PINs or 8+ word diceware passwords for people who don't want to rely on throttling (i.e. an exploit that bypasses it somehow, but I don't know of there being any in recent years).

obsessed957

other8026 Great! Thank you. I will add two more digits then.

DeletedUser69

other8026 if there is one, it is carefully guarded as it has a massive value to the interested parties. But this likely doesn't apply to an average user, these exploits are usually targeted. So 6+ digit PIN for 99.99% of users will be just fine.

People should be more worried about privacy side of GrapheneOS use.

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JollyRancher

1: Set a strong pin, or ideally a strong password/phrase.
2: Set USB to Charging Only and only change it when you have a specific need to do so.

Those two choices will essentially guarantee that all the data on your phone remains secure if it is out of your possession. Targeted thefts by well resourced parties are a different story (the NSA could have a drone shoulder surfacing your password with a telephoto lens from a few miles away, for an extreme example).

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DeletedUser64

If my phone is stolen, the last thing I want is it to be returned. Just imagine where the phone might have been used on the internet, and how many agencies now know about it...If it was returned it would be mechanically shredded as it would be of no use to me. (the usefulness of buying a cheap second hand phone for peanuts, not the latest cutting edge glass brick that costs several hundred pounds, which I could ill afford to loose).
my password is 14 digits long, good luck trying to crack that.
I don't use fingerprint access.
I have automatic boot set at 30 minutes.
I have stupidly simple duress pin/password.
if my phone is stolen then whoever has it has 30 minutes or less to beat the pin or the phone is back to BFU and a little bit harder to break into. If in the mean time they accidentally use the duress pin/password, then they can have a P6a with factory reset GrapheneOS installed to use for themselves, and my data is safe, however the IMEI will be recorded on a lost/stolen data base, so some one some where will get into hot water!
No, I'm not a spy, no I have not let my inner James Bond run away with my imagination. I have other peoples data (contacts) on my phone. Their data is to be protected also.

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