Plausible Deniability
Plausible Deniability
Do what withstands scrutiny. Prepare for the worst, do the best.
In this “woke” world you are guilty until proven innocent (the reverse is ideal but it didn’t happen unfortunately).
So even if you didn’t do anything wrong, you can (and will) land into situations that will announce you guilty of something that is technically legal but you will pay for it anyways.
Hence its essential to arm ourselves with the right tools to combat what I call unethical scrutiny (DM me, if you got a better name).
You don’t want to do an action Y, but you have to do it anyways because of the situation in hand demands it.
So you use an antidote instead- You show them another State.
“Confidentiality of data stored on mobile devices depends on one critical security boundary in case of physical access, the device’s lockscreen. If an adversary is able to satisfy this lockscreen challenge, either through coercion (e.g. border control or customs check) or due to their close relationship to the victim (e.g. intimate partner abuse), private data is no longer protected. Therefore, a solution is necessary that renders secrets not only inaccessible, but allows to plausibly deny their sole existence.” - Bernhard Gründling
Tools
Cross Platform
Linux
Shuffle Cake (This one is new and I haven’t done my full diligence yet)
Android
Kill Switch Trigger by:
(Note these apps have not been updated since 2 yrs. But probably they don't have any severe security issue.)
The ideal feature is something in-built in GrapheneOS, but it may take some time for it to get into production. You can track it’s progress here: GrapheneOS/issues/29
You can look into this as well: DueProcess
(Veracrypt Client?) for Android: DroidFS
Apple?
Unfortunately there isn’t much you can do on IOS as it doesn’t even have profiles (Browser profiles don’t count :P)
alias Truth is more potent as a privacy tool than creating a vacuum.