ONYX v1.5-beta: Emergency PIN with a full decoy environment

Released v1.5-beta of ONYX, and one of the things we added is Emergency PIN support.

A secondary PIN opens a completely separate decoy environment instead of your real account. You configure what’s in it — chats, avatars, display names — so it looks like a normal, lived-in account. There’s no visual indicator that it’s a decoy.

The use case is straightforward: situations where you’re pressured into unlocking your messenger. The Emergency PIN is kept entirely separate from your main PIN and can be changed at any time.

Happy to answer questions.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    9 days ago

    Decoy environments only work if a) there’s plausible deniability for having the feature enabled, b) the contents of the decoy are realistic and c) the decoy environment has a consistent timeline of activity up to the present.

    If any of those isn’t true, it just provides probable cause to dig deeper.