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Find My Graphene? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like this may be a bit of a counterintuitive question considering Graphene's privacy features but, is there a way to remote erase or find my phone with GrapheneOS in the event the phone is lost?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This is what I use now after I lost my phone and couldn't find it

https://gitlab.com/Nulide/findmydevice

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

on fDroid ☞ https://f-droid.org/packages/de.nulide.findmydevice/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Same, been using this software for almost half a year and I'm really happy with it, I've even selfhosted it's web interface

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I love that fmd can make your phone ring of you lose it. Who would have thought of that :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Nextcloud can do the find part

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

And also the perpetually half made filled with bugs and strange behaviors parts. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its been a while since I last checked the forums but iirc no. Best you can do is set up automatic reboot in order for it to be in it's most encrypted state after a specified time period again this info might be dated. My personal method is setting up a going out profile with the bare necessities with a weaker passcode and relying on a passphrase on my main user profile if it is found by a good person both the profiles have my burner email as a note on the lockscreen if they want to contact me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Following that, there's also the Wasted app:

https://f-droid.org/packages/me.lucky.wasted/

It sits in the background and you set it to wipe your phone if you haven't unlocked it for a set number of days, the counter resets when you unlock the phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Preyapp is partially open sourced. I've been using it for years. Works as needed and I have the free plan.