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MadeInDex 📰🌎@madeindex@lemmy.world

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/49853131

Feels to me like GrapheneOS did exactly what it should, passing the US border test with flying colours!

Funny part about this lawsuit: “With a little planning ahead of time, you can always download the data you need once you get to where you’re going,”

techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/
TechCrunchUS accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunchA U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.
mazzilius_marsti@mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨madeindex@lemmy.world⁩

GrapheneOS - the only OS that i just installed and forget about it. Sure i spend time to tweak things like profiles but thats it.

And I am a distro and rom hopper.

The security model is that good: duress pin, scrambled pin, separate profiles with their own passwords, usb c restriction (you can set it charge only, charge while phone is off (most secure state).

BigTwerp@BigTwerp@feddit.uk

Replying to @⁨WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works⁩

You can only install Graphene on a Google phone and there’s two big issues with that:

  1. you are rewarding Google by buying their hardware.
  2. it doesn’t matter how secure the os claims to be if the hardware is compromised and there is nothing you can do to convince me that a pixel has a backdoor into your data at a hardware level. If I was a conspiracy minded type I might say that Graphene is a Trojan Horse.
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