“We tried to violate this person’s fourth amendment rights and failed, so now we want to put them in prison as a warning to others. You have no more rights, you fucking livestock.” - US Department of Injustice
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I hope Legal Eagle does an episode on this. All the articles I read are light on the legality of all this. SCOTUS has repeatedly and recently ruled that you don't have the same rights at the boarder as you do in the interior.
I notice that his lawyers are arguing the 5th and 6th amendments, apparently because the 4th is weaker at the boarder?
They should charge the officer who entered the given password for criminal stupidity instead...
So what if you delete before they ask. I guess you could say it was acting up.
As someone else mentioned, you probably shouldn't affix the duress password to the back of the phone with a sticker for the officer to discover.
I wonder if you could get charged for traveling with an almost empty phone
Maybe they'll make it a crime not to carry evidence of something they think you should have evidence of.
What were the general thoughts on "Burn Bags" before this digital/tech issue came up? If it's my shit, I'll choose to burn it or not. My choice. Same goes for cellphones.
The future of authentic humanity doesn't include the United States of Americas culture.
is Julian Assange free yet?
Yes, the current Australian PM eventually came and got him.
...but really, Assange was spreading Russian disinformation to help Donald Trump into power... So a pretty dubious character.
Yes, though I don't suppose he'll ever be free of surveillance by various countries' intelligence agencies.
I'd have faith in the jury to release him but you see, my faith in humanity is shot
They charge all day to ruin lives, they don't convict. They earnestly want to convict, but they are failures. Broken system allows them to "win" either way, without consequence.
Here's hoping for a Nuremberg sequel to get the chuds "just following orders"
I didn’t even know iPhones had this functionality.
They don't.
Huh. Unless the phone was jail broken, it seems like it just gave up the ghost for no reason then.
Who said anything about an iPhone?
Omg you’re right. Sorry about that.
Yah, it was a GrapheneOS phone. It'd be really nice if the duress code just opened a stock "profile" to fool the uniformed fool.
That would likely require additional hardware to pull off. To display a bogus profile the phone would need to read from the storage device, which would still be unreadable because the actual PIN needed to decrypt it would not yet have been entered. Therefore a secondary storage device would have to be available to display the bogus profile without having to unlock the contents of the primary storage device.
The only issue with that is that when they grab the cellebrite and plug it in it will be able to extract the real data along with the fake profile. I think having both options would be great - the one you’ve described so that you can hand your phone to a friend or stranger who needs to use it, and the full-wipe method for when law enforcement demands it.

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