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Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days (support.google.com)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

And from my reading, helps secure against a situation where an police officer (AKA attacker in the US apparently..) coerces you to unlock the phone (or perhaps even just takes it off you in a locked, but active state), and stores it in a faraday bag with a charger. They do that to keep it 'alive' so their experts can break in - a dead-mans reboot can help circumvent even that (as it will just reboot and restore itself to an encrypted rest state, which is much harder to attack)