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Paywall.
Bad Times. He didn't erase anything. The pigs erased it.
Don’t visit the fascist USA
Well, at least don't visit the fascist parts, which aren't all that nice anyway.
A citizen not under arrest? How is that destroying evidence?
They destroyed their own private information that might prove them guilty of a crime during an unreasonable search and seizure, therefore they're guilty of a different crime.
No entrapment at all.
Oh, and it wasn't even the person, it was law enforcement that erased the person's phone through arguably careless handling.
/s in case it isn't obvious.
Hopefully it goes in front a judge who sees this as the harassment it clearly is. Thanks for posting
Why do people talk this way?
It's weird. Passive aggressive. Psychological issues?
Out of curiosity, what is weird about it?
You're not alone with this assessment. And what's more interesting...
“Many times the government wants to highlight what it was trying to investigate because that ups the stakes on what the defendant was doing,” Professor Richman said. “This is a case where I think they’re trying to avoid exactly that by focusing only on the destruction, and not what the investigation was about.”
I'd never heard of a "duress code" app, but it makes a lot of sense.
Its not an app, its a feature of GrapheneOS. The most secure mobile os, sadly it only supports Google pixels, but for good reason. Pixels are the only android phones with hardware features up to their security standards.
Highly recommend GrapheneOS, been running it for years, gets Google out of all your personal data as well.
Not just Pixels, soon they'll also support Motorola.
One major thing withholding me from buying one is that I find it difficult to reconcile privacy with that company, considering it's US-based (and thus subject to the CLOUD Act) and Chinese-owned (thus making me wonder whether the Chinese government can affect it).
Currently, I trust China more than the US government, but neither is great. The EU is comparatively more reliable, and the Nordics even more.
they’ll also support Motorola.
Motorola (the company whose name and reputation has been well known for decades) no longer exists. Its successor is called Motorola Solutions, and it's not the company making the upcoming GrapheneOS phone. That device is coming from Motorola Mobility, which is a completely separate company, owned by China's Lenovo.
thus making me wonder whether the Chinese government can affect it
They absolutely can. And, since they have the means, the incentive, and no reason to fear repercussions, they probably will. The questions on my mind are how they will affect it, and who will find out.
I hope the hardware and firmware features used by GrapheneOS will become common some day. I think Sony's Xperia line comes close. Perhaps the GrapheneOS maintainers should talk with them next.
Honestly, it'd be nice if Fairphone had better security. If that were the case I think there's not much of a question what to pick.
It's a native function of grapheneOS, as a "second passcode".
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