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.

GitHub: https://github.com/wardcore-dev/onyx/releases/tag/v1.5-beta
Website: https://onyx.wardcore.com/

Happy to answer questions.

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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] CsXGF8uzUAOh6fqV@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks 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 😅.

this post was submitted on 16 May 2026

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