Not for state sponsored campaigns. They’ll cut the damn chips from your phone and send signals directly to the individual pins if they have to. They’ll freeze your ram into super cold state to make it nonvolatile. They’ll do some crazy shit, man.

Actually, these tips are for every day people (just not people whose kids can get to their phones). High targets get their ram frozen with liquid nitrogen, their PSU spliced into a battery pack, and the entire system-state backed up for retries.

How should I protect the backups? Same story?

I’ve learned to wear brown pants so it’s not as bad.