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[–] 112 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Name one thing that can't land you in prison in the US. I'll wait.

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  • [–] 120 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Indirectly murdering hundreds of thousands of people in pursuit of profits.

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  • [+] 80 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
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    [–] 57 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Seems like what's needed is the ability to load an alternate profile or some kind of demo mode based on the pin. Something that looks normal but doesn't have any info you don't want others to see, without actually deleting anything.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    Alternately, a user profile that isn't displayed anywhere, but accessible only through a specific PIN, maybe. Not sure how you'd explain the storage space either option used, however.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It should work like truecrypt used to where there's no sign some of the encrypted blob is not actually visible in the fake os.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think the point is that if you load an empty profile (no photos, no videos, no apps, etc) but your phone storage is nearly full, it could throw up a red flag.

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    [–] 101 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Supreme court has ruled that warrantless phone search at the border is bogus, but theyre too shitpantsed to stick with it

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Not if you live within the jurisdiction of the 4th Circuit. The court "ruled that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply because the border officer chooses to search by hand rather than with a forensic tool."

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/fourth-circuit-says-border-agents-can-search-your-phone-hand-no-suspicion-required

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    You have to carry a piece of paper in your wallet that contains a PIN. The piece of paper contains no further information, just a PIN. You decline to answer any questions regarding this piece of paper or your phone’s PIN.

    This might not be a good idea, depending on your jurisdiction.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I'm not going to disclose my specific way, but numbers don't need decimal digits to be expressed and parsed. An hypothetical example:Oh... ye shadow! Nahamah, my Mother Believe it or not, this is encoding the today's date, 2026-07-26. Oh = 2 letters Elipsis = no letters, so 0 ye = 2 lettersshadow = 6 lettersNahamah = 7 My = 2Mother = 6The funny part? I just conjured this technique during the composition of this very reply. It's somehow easy for me to conjure atypical steganographic techniques, and I use steganography quite often IRL. In this way, I can literally write down my passwords and keep in my wallet, and absolutely nobody will get to figure out it's meant to be a password.Luckily for FBI and other investigation agencies, I dont even think of visiting the USA, but good luck for any fed or cop trying to keep up with my plethora of steganographic techniques (and my neurodivergent brain) amidst plausible deniability if I ever did. Lol!privacy@lemmy.ml

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    You can have a business card with a "phone"number on it. (Your pin can be any part of that number it is only you who needs to know where to start reading the code). You don't need to have a sus number only piece of paper. :)

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    this is what peak democracy™ looks like, dont be fooled

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    And that person is the officer that destroyed the evidence

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    This is yesterday's news. Destroying evidence is a crime in a lot of jurisdictions. With that in mind, I don't understand how somebody who apparently uses Graphene OS didn't bring an empty burner when crossing one of the most notorious borders in the world.

    Which isn't to say that the laws that require you to unlock your phone and that throw you in jail if you securely wipe it aren't hostile and inhumane.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    If I understand correctly they didn’t actually delete anything it just shreds the encryption keys so it can’t be accessed. Idk if the difference matters a whole lot though.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago

    No it wipes the data from the phone

    GrapheneOS provides users with the ability to set a duress PIN/Password that will irreversibly wipe the device (along with any installed eSIMs) once entered anywhere where the device credentials are requested

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Very interesting! I'd like to ask a lawyer how they think the courts would view that. The data is intact, just not decryptable. 🤣

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    BS. It's a claim from last year and not only in Spain, that criminals often use encrypted phomes (logical), among others, Graphene OS, but also iOS and Android. Not that all who use encrypted devices (or message apps) are criminals, which due the amount of these devices result absurd to say. As often, periodists write and share half understood news. In Spain as also in the rest of the EU, phones and messages of individuals can only be intercepted by the police with a court order in a criminal investigation, not globaly like in the US. There may be cases when an individual under criminal investigation deletes incriminating messages, which can be punished for concealment of evidences.

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    Really? I feel like I'm constantly seeing complaints about the US's growing authoritarianism.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    They didnt grow to it. Nobody just gave a shit before, because it wasnt against all skin colors.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    It's not even about skin color, not really. It's about poverty and people not having a chance to get out of it. I would also commit crimes if I felt my life had no future and im white.

    As a consequence, black people commit crimes and white cops become racist because they see that. But its not really about skin color if you look at the full picture.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    It's about poverty, yeah. White people would act the same as black people if they lived in poverty. In fact, you see that happening in America too.

    You have to give someone a chance in life or you end up with desperate people. I never understood the idea that poor people should just say no to crime when they have absolutely nothing to live for otherwise. That's crazy.

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 3 months ago*

    What a coincidence that it was the guy protesting the police who was also suspected of possessing such materials. If it turns out they had real independent grounds to suspect he had such images, I'll change this view, but for now I assume that's the cops' standard line to shut down people's questions. Just say they thought the political target had CSAM, and immediately people see him differently, plus the police can accuse anyone who challenges their actions of supporting pedophiles.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    They implied that based on his use of grapheneOS/erasure of the device. In reality he is a Stop Cop City activist. The fascists just want to associate good privacy and security practices with criminality and depravity.

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