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note: I don't even dabble, and getting my info from [1] so salt

with Qualcomm, if I'm not wrong, it should suffice to, with FDE, (transparently, on entry of pin), nuke the DEK (random key generated by Keymaster), and force a device reset; this does seem like an interesting usecase for custom firmware and/or magisk

[1] http://bits-please.blogspot.com/2016/06/extracting-qualcomms...

albeit, if this does end up being implemented in some manner, wouldn't the fallback be a "confiscate electronic devices first for forensic" approach?

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