No, no and no! Your problem isn’t at all related to Sailfish, or the Jollyboys company. It is entirely related to your incorrect handling of the system. So please learn again.
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Guys, what do you store on your phones that your are so much afraid of the cops 
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As we joked about in school:
If I die today, delete my browser history.
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In Android ≥12 and iphone ≥8, pressing 5 times the power button calls the emergency services e.g. 112, 911 ( https://techdiy.info/sports/what-happens-if-you-press-power-button-5-times/ ).
Personally my threat model is losing the phone (or getting stolen) and it falling into wrong hands. High profile analysts (criminals, or police) will figure out it’s SFOS and crack the encryption following our own instructions:
The solution is either to use a very complex lock code, which is impractical for the daily usage (or use the fingerprint in parallel but that also goes against strong security), or implementing a /home encryption using a password different than the simpler lock pin (as proposed by @rinigus GitHub - sailfishos-open/sailfish-device-encryption-community: Support for device storage encryption ).
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Are you El Chapo or someone like him? Why else would high profile analyst examine your phone?
Haha… I dont even use a PIN code or anything else in my phone so if I lose it, its open to everyone.
In any case:
“why are you afraid when you have nothing have to hide?” aka "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear "
–»"It is just nobodies business, what I do not have to hide "
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And I do not even close any curtains, leave my door always open and go naked in summer.
Hi,
I’d say, it’s like our bodies. Nothing interesting. Just privacy and intimacy.
Plus: peace of mind, knowing that I’m alone when I think I’m alone (and not spied / analyzed / notified all the time).
Also -if I correctly understand how it woks-, what I have to hide is precious data used for social mining / extractivism.
Contacts, expense habits, practices, pictures, pace of life, agenda…
All data that I would perhaps selectively sell, but not give for free, knowing some make money (control?) on it.
More or less, that’s it, I guess, regarding what I have to hide.
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Anyway, it is just your business what you do not have to hide…
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Criminal gangs will steal mobile phones and hand it to their local hacker to extract anything they could expose or resell on the dark web. Such as session cookies to work email, payment information, intimate pictures.
Ah ok. I’m glad where I live is no criminal gang active.
But if there were, wouldn’t it be much more lucrative for them to sell drugs or something like that? seems much easier then fiddling around with mobile phone data? (which might not have useful data on it?)
I have to hide my e-mail access creds, also some other creds for accounts that can be misused by criminals, for example. Also i don’t want to potentially reveal all my private life to every guy who may get the phone in his hands for any reason, phone should be safe and have a self deleting and/or factory reset distress code.
Edit: not to forget the access codes of the banking app.
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But why do you think they would even bother to try to crack your device lock code instead of just selling the phone? In what area live you where so many high-tech criminals are around?
Why are you arguing we shouldn’t implement security in our devices? There are not “so many” criminals in my area, but you just need one to have your live screwed over, losing large amounts of money, losing your job over lax data security practices, or having your private life exposed in ways that have consequences for you or your family.
I want security even though I don’t live in a high crime area. I also travel and I can’t be sure how secure are the other countries. Being victim of crime is about probabilities, and reducing those probabilities provides peace of mind.
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As a point of comparison, there is this very recent (30 Oct 2025) leak about the capabilities of the Cellebrite hacking tools on Google Pixel phones.
Note: According to Wikipedia, several EU countries use Cellebrite for police investigations, and on the phones of incoming migrants when they apply for asylum.
Results: Any Google Pixel with stock Android can be hacked BFU (after reboot, “before first unlock”). The only that can’t be hacked is the Pixel 9 with GrapheneOS.
Europe, I guess. Maybe even something like a city.(City - Wikipedia)