@chartgerink@akademienl.social
Post #4359561
2026-08-03 06:42 UTC
> ‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
how can you be charged with destroying evidence they don't know is there? i might be missing something obvious here.
and even if it was the case, is it not the risk the officer who typed the distress code took that resulted in wiping the phone?
https://ino.to/Wu3pRiW
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@chartgerink@akademienl.social 2026-08-03 06:42
reminds me of this scene in breaking bad https://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/15u3h4w/explanation/
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@waldoj@mastodon.social 2026-08-03 13:51
@chartgerink@akademienl.social It turns out that most of the time that it's important that it be a crime to destroy evidence is when government doesn't know if evidence is there. If government already knows about the evidence, then destroying it becomes a lot less problematic. (None of this to defend the current situation—I don't know enough about that to have an informed opinion.)