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The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border (www.theverge.com)
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Sam Tunick allegedly gave federal agents a fake ‘duress password’ at the airport.

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[–] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

yeah, it should log in to a patsy account and start bricking the other profile in the background, then hard power off and restart in a bricked, reflashable state.

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    Most devices aren't actually brickable because they can have their bootloader and encryption keys rewritten when plugged into a computer via processes like DFU.

    The procedure would be boot, start loading a patsy profile, mash up the stored keys for the volumes encryption and reboot. Or just delete the non-patsy profile.

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