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Journalist Richard Medhurst had his mobile phone seized. Did using a secure phone protect his data? | Computer Weekly (www.computerweekly.com)
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Interesting article about Medhurst and his use of GrapheneOS. Apparently he failed to turn off his phone before UK police boarded his plane and seized it from him, but the auto reboot feature protected his data and sources. The article also mentions that he's now in the process of writing a massive guide to security and privacy for journalists.

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“They then tried to offer me journalistic privilege,” which he also flat-out refused.

“The idea was that you tell an ‘independent’ policeman what the passcode is, and where all the privileged documents and contacts are, then they sift through them to decide what to pass to the prosecution,” he says.

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