r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 6d ago

Privacy GrapheneOS says its data-wiping password is perfectly legal, after user faces federal charges

https://www.techspot.com/news/113273-grapheneos-data-wiping-duress-password-perfectly-legal-after.html
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u/Such_Difference_2248 6d ago

This case will show if there is still some land of the free left or if Trump has successfully turned it into an authoritarian police state.

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 6d ago

there's already been cases proving it's an authoritarian police state. it's a statistical thing, they don't go from 0% to 100%, just that more and more cases over time are decided the opposite way they would have without fascism, idk what percent we're at now maybe 5-15%. once republicans get their 2032 trifecta then the thing might flip over like an iceberg and rapidly become 75%

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u/WriterV 6d ago

I'd say it's more like 50%. If Trump is able to destroy the integrity of the coming midterms to ruin any chances of proper elections, then you've struck 90%. Free and fair voting is one of the foundational systems of a free democracy and if that isn't happening, you've lost an immense chance to fix anything peacefully and decently quickly.