That's precisely what a duress password is for. Feature working as intended, get a warrant.

Pick a lane. Either it counts as US soil so you need a warrant or it doesn't so theres no reason for US law to apply until the person is approved.

So? My data, my choice and right to delete it, so fuck off!

Citizen enforces his own right to the Fourth Amendment and is prosecuted by the government for not letting them try to find incriminating evidence on him. For something. Maybe. Because he looks suspicious.

I hope that lawyer gets it thrown out. I'm not holding my breath. We've gone so far into fascism I'm not sure it'll take anything less than violence to end it.

A reason to try grapheneos if you are technically inclined.

Sounds like the police officer tried to gain unauthorized access to a device. And, while they were trying to crack it, they wiped all of its data.

I wonder if the police officer that did this will face criminal charges of unauthorized access and destruction of evidence.

And also there's a civil suit in there. The officer may have deleted valuable data on the victim's device, causing them harm. I wonder what the monetary value will be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampering_with_evidence

Tunick’s attorneys accused the government of demanding access to his phone under the pretext of searching for child exploitation imagery, but without providing evidence to justify its suspicion.

Even if I had more information, I still wouldn’t have the law chops to predict where this may lead.

no he didn't. They asked for a password that the phone would accept. They weren't even supposed to ask, but he gave them one. They're the ones who entered it on the phone. And by extension they're the ones who erased the phone.

FYI if you are using GrapheneOS with the duress password, you can natively backup your phone. Its in settings.

this is literally what they accuse china of

Sounds like the cops entered the passcode... Therefore the cops erased the evidence.

who knows what would've happened if they bothered to get a warrant first.

When Tunick provided his passcode and the authorities entered it, “the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart.” The authorities seized his phone anyway, before telling him that he was free to go and could enter the United States.

Very glad to hear that he's a free man while the courts try to figure out what to do.

Also it's hilarious that he didn't wipe it. The officers did it. I think it's going to be very hard to get a conviction of this activist when it was the officer that wiped the data.

US is a dystopia

"Sorry, my fat American fingers accidentally entered the wrong code, you understand."

they’re gonna use this case as pretext to ban graphene os

for research purposes, how would one go about setting this up?

Hmm this sounds like government overreach 🤔

Regardless of how it happened, entering a fascist state means that you must be prepared to wipe all your devices before crossing the border. They’ll naturally fabricate justifications to employ totalitarian measures as it’s their directive to do so. If they seize your items and violate your privacy, which they will do, at least there’s nothing but a blank slate. These days I feel it’s more important than ever to have two devices, with one being a basic phone for communication only and the other a smartphone that’s backed up and ready to be wiped at a moments notice, then stuffed into your luggage.

sorry accidentally did a duress oopsie uwu bite me