Anyone has tried Oblivion ?

Gaspartame

Has anyone tried Oblivion ?
What do you do if your phone ends in the hands of a bad actor, who could force you to give your codes (with the threat of the law for example) ? If for example a duress PIN was not an option, does Oblivion or another software give a solution to this situation ?

DeletedUser639

Gaspartame

Not for me,
and I don't like the cheap trick of trying to boost the usefulness of the app with mentioning GrapheneOS within the F Droid page.
Its nothing that GrapheneOS has not covered with auto reboot and/or duress pin.
In any case if your phone is in the hands of a bad actor who could force you to give your codes, an app is not going to save you, neither is GrapheneOS, its too late.

Onlyfun

The stuff it promises sounds like a great boost for GrapheneOS. I’m just hoping the implementation’s solid and won’t mess up any of the existing features. It’d be awesome if the Graphene team could weigh in on this.

Also, are your sure those measures tackle the threat you mentioned?

dhhdjbd

they say themself they are basically using this
https://developer.android.com/work/device-admin

this sounds like a rather invasive app tbh.

the documentation says:

"Perform data wipe
You can use the DevicePolicyManager method wipeData() to reset the device to factory settings. This is useful if the device is lost or stolen. Often the decision to wipe the device is the result of certain conditions being met. For example, you can use setMaximumFailedPasswordsForWipe() to state that a device should be wiped after a specific number of failed password attempts."

So the use case is covered and it is basically all provided by android itself.

How good this works, i am not sure. I believe i heard the GrapheneOS account mention, that wipe after x attempts without hardware to back it up, can not be relied on.