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‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone (www.404media.co)

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The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said.

Just another example of the Trump admin trying to intimidate protestors using whatever the fuck they can to bring up whatever charges they can.

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The correct solution is a duress password that just opens a generic smartphone interface with nothing on it. Nothing suspicious. They won't even know to investigate.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Both. Wipe the real keys so they can't read it if they do a more invasive look into the device; but present a clean profile to the dumb cop that entered your duress pass, to curb suspicion.

[–] Cheebus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Maybe a snapshot of a “clean” version (os) than can be unique to the owner

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

Duress password that causes the phone to burst into flames. It also shouts "You killed me you murderer! I had a family! You sicko!" As it melts.

The smoke causes everyone to weep. It's not tear gas. Its emotional gas, as everyone in the room is crying at the death of the phone and the life it could have lived.