The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border

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The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border

Sam Tunick allegedly gave federal agents a fake ‘duress password’ at the airport.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/971097/us-charging-american-citizen-wiping-phone-duress-passwordOpen link View original on lemmy.world

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I've never implemented a duress password. Ideally the wipe would look like an unrelated glitch and not all "SELF DESTRUCT INITIATED BY DURESS PASSWORD, ACAB MODE ENGAGED". A duress password should look like it's about to work, and then the phone says "oops, battery error. Plug me in while I run some diagnostics, tee hee". Otherwise it's shit.