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surroundyesterday at 10:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

> in sensitive situations, law enforcement and border agents in many countries can compel a biometric unlock in ways they cannot with a password.

If the threat model includes state-level actors, then disabling biometrics won't prevent data from being retrieved from physical memory. It would probably be wiser to enable disk encryption and have a panic button that powers down/hibernates the computer so that no unencrypted data remains on RAM.

The website says shutdown "takes time" and "kills your session" but a hibernation button would take effect just as fast and would preserve the session.


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LoganDarkyesterday at 10:28 PM

Apple Silicon is at least much more difficult to attack in this way, though it might be possible.

jovial_cavalieryesterday at 10:22 PM

a cop works for "the state," but he's definitely not a "state-level actor."

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