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And then we beat you up for deliberately sabotaging our investigation. If you didn't have anything to hide why would you wipe your phone? Clearly you must be a spy or worse so we have no choice but to send you to the re-education camp.

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The action should be indistinguishable from a remote-wipe if possible.

So it was working right up until you put in the special password? How would you make it look like a remote wipe?

Also, keep in mind, remote wiping your phone after the police take it is evidence tampering. In the US, that alone can get you imprisoned.

Well yes, it's not trivial. The lock screen would have to remain unaffected and the filesystem would have to look like it was rebuilt a few hours ago.

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