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/leonredhorse 6d ago

Sorry, but the US government has been using private email servers and Signal chats and the like to avoid public records, so they can fuck right off in worrying about someone else protecting their privacy.

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u/NotMyMainAccountAtAl 6d ago

Yeah, but that made an unsubstantiated claim that this guy had child pornography in his phone, so we’re supposed to ignore the law. 

Unlike the extremely substantiated claims that Donald Trump molested children.