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Yeah sorry to hit you with a wall of text.
Between all the people who refuse to use graphene because it’s on pixels and the ones who seem like they haven’t been keeping up with the news or even had any interaction with cops this thread is deeply disturbing and hitting all the buttons that make me wanna say No Don’t Do That!
Who knows, maybe there’s a good case where someone uses the duress and gets away with it. I think assange did once before…
"all laws are local, and no law knows how local it is", which is to say it on the user to understand their local legal (and political) situation. It's a big world.
But yeah, there's a bit of naivete here, the rubber hose (cryptanalysis) was also a reference to the xkcd