That wasn’t the charge. The charge is destruction of property that the government is trying to hold on to.

Get your hand off my penis!

Kinda wish people would go as hard on their Fourth Amendment rights as their second.

The duress password is literally the solution to this.

After the keys are wiped, they can't get the data - even if you give them the password before or after they repeatedly hit you with a wrench

Veracrypt can do this with hidden volumes. The danger is the hidden layer can look stable and fake so you need enough data that changes recently enough, and if you add too much to either volume it starts corrupting everything because one partition overwrites the other.

for attending protests and similar

Emphasis added.

I remember reading warnings about having laptops and devices checked at airports a decade ago. As a matter of fact I think that's why I was looking into having hidden, encrypted partitions: because getting caught with some pirate TV series on my laptop might have meant having to pay a bribe or whatever.

Regardless, it doesn't really change my point - if there's a chance you're going to interact with a government official and they might want to look at your device, wiping it is going to attract attention.

Which according to mafia he has about the same rights as Fauci's beagles. Which is what makes this case interesting. The bewigged political activists will be doing legal cartwheels to keep the "before admitted to US" scam alive.