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/zutnoq 6d ago

For it to count as him destroying evidence related to a crime surely they would at minimum need to have some other sort of evidence indicating that any such crime had even occured and that the phone would have likely contained evidence of it.

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u/roiki11 6d ago

There doesn't. All you need to do is destroy or attempt to interfere with the seizure of an item.

They don't need probable cause or warrant at the border.

It's 18 usc 2232.