• dingdongitsabear
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    anyone knows how to accomplish similar with LineageOS? I had a programmable power off and on timer ona Samsung S3 a long time ago, but that’s missing from the current builds.

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    If the phone saves its state before rebooting, why would that help? It will still be accessible after the reboot. What’s the attack vector?

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      Features like this exist for putting the phone back at rest when there hasn’t been a successful unlocking for X hours – GrapheneOS, an Android OS, has a similar feature. The objective is to limit the window of time an attacker has to try to exploit anything the phone may have in operation during a not-at-rest state (when the user is still ‘logged in’ to the phone, certain background services / features may be available to exploit).

      Rebooting automatically, especially if the phone not has not been successfully unlocked recently, may place the phone in a less exploitable state, as those services / features might not be available without logging in first.

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        They had spyware, anyway. We don’t know that it still works.

        As of March 2023, Pegasus operators were able to remotely install the spyware on iOS versions through 16.0.3 using a zero-click exploit.

        The current version of iOS is 18.1.0.