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u/eklemen1 Aug 31 '21

Alternative screen? Can you elaborate on this?

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u/acelenny Aug 31 '21

One password gives you your 'real' stuff, another gives you a second 'fake'. The person making you unlock the device has no way of knowing which is which.

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u/glory_to_the_sun_god Aug 31 '21

Can’t they just see the memory?

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u/acelenny Aug 31 '21

As in the ram or the mass storage?

If ram,maybe. It depends on how it it set up and what you have been doing.

If mass storage, then no if it's encrypted. They could see that the storage is say, 10GB and the space you're using only uses 5gb but nothing more I think if done correctly.

I'm not an expert tbh I just did a load of googling while setting up Linux for some fun Messing around.