As someone who accidentally entered the duress pin, I can confirm. It's highly effective.

This arrest is the best damn advertisement ever

I beleve this feature was demonstrated in Mr. Robot at one point.

My work phone has enabled "wipe if pin is wrong three times".

I discovered after my son wiped it three times. I must though it was defective and asked for replacement

It'd be fascinating to see how this plays out in the courts.

Technically it'd be the officers themselves performing the wipes, right? Could you say you got the pins mixed up in your head and get away with it?

Legally, they cannot refuse entry to a US Citizen. Legally.

But just because someone is based in the US doesn't mean they're a citizen. And they don't need any justification to search someone, because airports and land within 100 miles of a border is a "constitution-free zone" (but not 100 miles from an airport, contrary to popular belief).

you should never give permission to anybody to search your phone

Not only does your phone have access to all your social media accounts, email, text, phone logs, but it's also commonly used as a security device (multi factor authentication) to sign in to other accounts like your bank account, work login, etc. If you allow someone into your phone they can possibly access your work resources and that could be an even bigger problem.

Do not let anyone have access to your phone.

It's cute that you think there are still laws in the US.

If it was at a point of entry CBP can search electronic devices without a warrant or suspicion, for a brief time (up to 5 days) without probable cause, under the "border search exception".

It's not complicated, it's Border Patrol doing their MAGA duty. The only thing we know about this case is what MAGA tells us, so it's almost all certainly a lie. Of course the details and timeline don't make sense, they are probably entirely fabricated.

Reminder that Apple/Google will absolutely give law enforcement all your cloud data if presented with a warrant. I know this for a fact. Most people's phone data is synced to the cloud. Be careful out there folks.

at this point just leave your phone at home or get burner for this exact purpose

*presuming you have a strong password set

They can and still will run it through a password cracker with a dictionary provided the phone has some method of either exposing the password hash or can be bruteforced on device similar to PIN bruteforcing.

You can refuse a search

Which can lead to an up to 24 hour detainment which CBP has been allegedly doing, so do know the consequences.

Absolutely. Got mad "I do lots of illegal shit, but I draw the line at littering" vibes.

Sometimes, doing the illegal thing is to do the moral thing.

He's DoD, not DHS. This is the puppy killer's agency