601
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2026
601 points (99.7% liked)
Technology
88648 readers
4174 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
On Graphene, Lockdown mode disables biometric login until you unlock it manually with your passcode, but the device is still in the less secure AFU (After First Unlock) state.
You can also set it to restart the device if not used within a set time period. Various settings from 10 minutes to 72 hours. So if you haven't touched your device within that time period, it will shutdown and restart, going back to the more secure BFU (Before First Unlock) state.
That's no different than iOS in that regard then (minus the configurable restart time). But that's about what I'd expect, not sure you could have a useable phone if it didn't have an AFU state at all.
It's almost like there's only two ways to actually accomplish this type of thing. You can do the same basic thing but use different names to differentiate where/how that function is used.
Lock it and require the passcode where the decryption key is still in memory because the system is running, or shutdown/restart the device so the decryption key isn't in memory anymore.
What would a third option even look like?
What are you babbling about? Of course, that's why I already said it. Twice.
Both comments I have made in thi thread have mentioned shutting down or restarting the device to put it back into a BFU state.
Since you clearly didn't actually read the comments you are replying to... I'll include the relevant parts from both below:
You still didn't answer the question I posed though... before replying in way that seems to indicate you either can't, or refuse to actually read before responding condescendingly.
Since you seem to think there should be another choice instead of doing the same two things to protect the device/data... what would a third option look like? Other than locking and disabling biometrics, or a shutdown/restart putting the device back into BFU mode.
Or are you just stuck thinking a shutdown and reboot are technically different things? Even though that makes no difference here since they both put a device into BFU.