GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search
2026-07-28 18:02 UTC
Replies (15)
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@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2026-07-28 18:03
This is what happens when you try to maintain your rights in a fascist country: you risk five years in the slammer.
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@joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-07-28 18:17
So puzzled why it even needs defending in a country that is constantly screaming about free speech and rights, it is your data and no one has the right to it but you
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@HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 2026-07-28 18:33
Those fascist fucks didn’t have a right to confiscate his phone, nor any probable cause. He was well within his rights to do with his property as he saw fit.
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@cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-07-28 19:16
i mean they should it’s a good feature and the person accused of using it didn’t do a single thing wrong.
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@Rajtinka@lemmy.world 2026-07-28 21:15
I fail to see how wiping data prevents the government from seizing property. They got the property. Just not the data, which isn’t property? It’s data. Seems like an easy win and just a scare tactic by the land of the free…
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@newton@feddit.online 2026-07-29 04:25
Hello people, you realize THAT this is the best free advertising that our dear graphene organization can get.
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@RandomStranger@piefed.social 2026-07-29 07:59
Why is the phone owner being accused? It was the border guard that put in the code and wiped the device. He should be the one prosecuted, if anyone.
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@eleitl@lemmy.zip 2026-07-29 09:34
Why do you have to defend against what is advertized as a feature and is working as advertized? The fascists can stuff it right up their arse.
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@Robert_White@lemmy.world 2026-07-29 15:31
The reboot isn’t cosmetic, it’s structural. The duress PIN nukes the key derivation material, and a device with no keys has nothing left to boot into. There’s no quiet version of that. But your instinct is right and worth pushing one step further. An empty phone has the same problem as a rebooting one. Nobody owns a phone with four apps and two weeks of messages, so it just takes them a bit longer to notice. What you actually want is to quietly unlock into a phone that’s full. Real apps, real photos, real history, and the sensitive half behind a second PIN stored so it reads as random noise, same as any unused encrypted space. Nothing gets destroyed, so there’s nothing to reboot from and nothing to argue about afterwards. Catch is the decoy has to be believable, and keeping one believable is a chore most people drop after a month. (I work on DeniableOS, which does this, so grain of salt. Graphene’s own statement this week made roughly your point, that wiping can carry physical or legal consequences.)
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@Juice@midwest.social 2026-07-29 15:53
Boy this story sure is getting a lot of publicity. Makes you wonder why. I forgot about this feature on Grapheme phones, I’m gonna turn it on right now
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@NRay7882@lemmy.world 2026-07-29 16:08
I had read one source that stated they wanted to search his phone for possession of CP but I haven’t found other stories with details suggesting that. It seems they went about it all wrong but I’d like to know the reasoning for why they wanted to search his phone in the first place.
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@veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-29 17:14
Ya know, all this can be avoided by simply not flying in with a phone in the first place. Or just not even going to the US. Any plane ticket to the US is money given to an airline company that deals in abetting fascism by providing victims.
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@irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-29 18:51
Would it be better to have a pin that loads a different profile instead of just obviously wiping the phone?
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@E_coli42@lemmy.world 2026-07-30 08:57
God, the new motorola can’t come out soon enough
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@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-07-30 09:02
Tunick’s lawyers claim the agents “never read him his Miranda rights,” irrelevant unless his statements are going to be used against him I don’t really see why this is an enormous civil liberties story. Destruction of evidence can, I think, legitimately be a crime even in a free and democratic society. It’s not like they’re trying to make the feature itself illegal… Compared to thenation.com/…/you-can-be-prosecuted-clearing-yo… (from 2015 - 11 years ago, under the Obama administration!) where the person apparently didn’t even know the government might be considering the deleted stuff “evidence”, I find this story harmless.