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You know, since we are entering into a lot of legal weirdness here, how about this:
You give the cops TWO passwords. You tell them one is the duress password, and the other is the password that will unlock the phone.
Desperate and without a warrant, they try one. Wrong try! Phone is wiped.
In reality, both are duress passwords but they would have to prove that. (GoS only currently supports one duress password)
Yes, it's ridiculous, but everything about this is ridiculous.
Nah, write the duress password on a piece of paper and keep it in your phone case. Then keep your mouth shut. Let the cops find it and try it themselves.
Then you sue them for destroying your data. They took your phone and wiped it...
Yes! Or even better, make it 1234 or your birthdate and let them guess it on their own.
I have two different PINs I use for different debit cards. One of those is also my phone PIN, the other is my Duress PIN.
It would be really easy for to forget which is which when in a stressful situation.
This is actually a really good idea. It would also work if your phone got stolen.
Labeled "phone password" for good measure.
Nope. Now it's intentionally misleading. You don't want that.
And what about maybe also adding in a friend or relative that's with you so that you can inform the cop that one of you tells only truths and one of you tells only lies. I think we're onto something here. 'Dispatch, I'm gonna need the Riddlemaster to come down here. We got another one.'
https://xkcd.com/246/
And https://xkcd.com/538/.
Yup, you're ok if they use the rubber hose. They likely need to produce you again at some point. If they use the wrench, they don't care what you look like.