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.

  • 柊 つかさ@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Definitely a cool feature but I’m happy that my threat model doesn’t require having an answer to someone beating the shit out of me if I don’t give them a pin 😅.