- FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
Write the duress PIN on a piece of paper in your wallet. Someone searching your phone is probably also searching your wallet and may try the PIN.
- Folstar@lemmus.orgEnglish1 hour
Genius. Flips the script. In the process of conducting an illegal search, you deleted my phone causing considerable financial and emotional damage. Lawsuit time.
- FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish53 minutes
It probably won’t work, at least (US)domestically. The requirement for obtaining a warrant before searching a phone is part of training because there is a clear Supreme Court ruling to that effect.
That being said, what the law says and what some random asshole does during a stop are not always the same thing.
- FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish15 minutes
That being said, what the law says and what some random asshole does during a stop are not always the same thing.
- arc99@lemmy.worldEnglish26 minutes
If the duress pin makes obvious it’s the duress pin then it’s not really doing its job. It should instead open a profile with not much in it while erasing the other profile and files in the background.
- khepri@lemmy.worldEnglish51 minutes
My understanding is you can’t actually be forced (legally) to give up your phone’s PIN or password as part of a police search, because it violates the 5th amendment against self-incrimination, even at the border. Now will they still find a way to fuck up your day if you refuse to unlock your phone, sure, but I feel like saying “I have a right under the 5th Amendment to not reveal my password” is going to be a lot easier to defend than “I intentionally wiped/locked/bricked my phone when you asked to look through it.”
- FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish34 minutes
Depends
Most phones can be accessed by forensic software. The more secure phones are protected as long as they’ve just been restarted but before they’re unlocked for the first time.
Some phones, like an up-to-date GrapheneOS on a supported Pixel, may resist forensic imaging after first unlocking but the information is in memory so there could potentially be zero days or other exotic methods of obtaining the data.
A duress wipe lets you know 100% that the data is not accessible.
- ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish1 hour
Back up and wipe your phone before you cross the border. That way if they want to look at it, feel free to hand it to them. When you get back home, restore the backup.
Also consider getting a throwaway phone if they try to keep it.
- Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
What law did he break? Vs the warrantless search that is breaking the law. If only the supreme court didn’t give them a pass.
6 hoursWithout a warrant, it’s literally his phone to do with it what he pleases. Baffled that that’s not the end of the conversation.
Assuming we lived in a rational world with a fair and impartial justice system, and not one that exists to funnel money from the working class into the Epstein class and kill or imprison everyone that makes that less easy.
- khepri@lemmy.worldEnglish45 minutes
well they have the “border search exception” so at the border, no, they generally do not need a warrant for “routine searches” of electronic devices. Fucked up, but that is the law on the books and US courts have virtually always upheld it when it comes up.
- Folstar@lemmus.orgEnglish1 hour
Assuming we lived in a rational world with a fair and impartial justice system
That’s like assuming unicorns will protect all that is good and sugar is effective weight loss
- wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish4 hours
Oh, because they are outside US borders they claim not to need a warrant, but that doesn’t stop them using US law to prosecute him though.
- Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
I think the supreme court has said they can search phones without warrants at the border and points of entry, so airports.
- 33 minutes
You can’t be compelled to give them your password, but you can be compelled to use your biometric ID. Clear as mud.
- jaschen306@sh.itjust.worksEnglish5 hours
A judge issues a warrant when there is an active criminal investigation. If there’s no investigation, no warrant.
- 5 hours
Oh, that’s not how it works in the united States. Is this some commonwealth legal thing?
- wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish4 hours
It is how it works inside the united states. It’s just they claim that because he was on the flight side of the airport, he wasn’t inside the US.
- 4 hours
it is how it works
Thanks but I live here and it’s not basically ever.
Cops either use a pretense tools like a drug dog to establish probable cause for the search they want or do parallel construction after they’ve already built the general structure of a case, usually tracing things to a valid cause for search, usually via coached informant.
Or its ice and they can just do whatever they want.
You’re living in a fantasy world and your delusional ignorance is real danger is worrying. Please never approach or speak to me in person.
- 4 hours
That’s not how it works. I’m not sure that’s how it’s ever worked. You’re living in a fantasy. Warrants are not a meaningfully real thing.
- 8 hours
The headline is wrong.
Fascist regime fucks over people’s constitutional rights and could send a man to prison for protecting his own privacy.
There, fixed.
GrapheneOS should update the duress passcode to load a dummy profile like Only Key’s Plausible Deniability Feature.
- GMac@feddit.orgEnglish2 hours
Loading any profile allows the operating system access to root privileges, and opens potential for user privilege escalation.
- FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
The profiles are independently encrypted with a key derived from the user’s profile PIN. If the other profiles are not logged in then their keys are not in RAM (and they get zeroed beforehand so they can’t be read out of unallocated memory).
Even if the bad guys get root via a LPE in a dummy account there are no keys to find and the profiles’ storage are not mounted.
You couldn’t trust the device after that however, who knows what kind of persistent spyware they could have installed.
- GMac@feddit.orgEnglish2 hours
That would be an interesting proposition… under duress load profile x and delete all other profiles, apps, settings and keys.
Or maybe a lighter version of the duress pin that just loads the fake profile (or alternate profile) but leaves the other(s) intact.
If you’re just handing your phone over for a border pig to swipe through before waving you through that might be adequate.
- iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
It depends on whether you believe forensics can recover the data when handed over. So make it a setting
- lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish9 hours
This is fucking stupid. If I delete something on my phone while I’m on vacation am I going to prison because the border patrol might have wanted to look at it?
- 8 hours
Should have been born a child fucking billionaire if you don’t want to be sentenced to prison for 30 years.
- corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish6 hours
I always forget that “choose better parents” one weird trick. ;-)
It’s like pulling yourself up by the bootstraps. So obvious. Just because it is impossible to do is no excuse.
It’s bullshit but with the current laws. Back up your phone before you head home wipe it before going through border control, and restore your backup when you get home.
- FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
Their mood isn’t your responsibility. Carrying a blank phone is perfectly legal.
- 3 hours
Nah, they just lube up the rubber gloves and fist you, checking in case there’s a micro SD stashed up there. You should still make your flight if you relax.
- AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
We don’t need hyperbole here …. If authorities have a legal reason to search and you interfere with that, destruction of evidence is a crime. Delete all you want …. Right up until authorities claim the legal reason to search. Usually that takes a warrant: investigators must convince a judge there is a good reason
This also includes “when entering the country”. It always has. There’s nothing new here. There are so many things the current administration does to violate rights and due process, but this isn’t one of them.
The slippery slope here is “or within 100 miles”, but that wasn’t a factor here either
- lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish3 hours
This also includes “when entering the country”. It always has. There’s nothing new here. There are so many things the current administration does to violate rights and due process, but this isn’t one of them.
Have to disagree with that one. Simply entering a country is not justification for searching someones phone. I don’t care what the law says. People have a right to privacy.
- lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish1 minute
They do, just because the government says otherwise doesn’t make it true.
- stopdropandprole@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
as far as I understand, they were not there to serve a warrant. he was crossing a border and the feds are claiming that the 4th amendment doesn’t apply because he hadn’t yet crossed into America.
border patrol was essentially using a loophole to preemptively collect potential evidence (they’ll figure out what to charge him with after they see his phone contents). he’s a political activist against a cop city, they were obviously trying to do him dirty.
they were not serving a search warrant. they were abusing what should be an illegal search at the border in order to silence those who speak out against govt overreach.
- AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish25 minutes
So the important takeaway is to delete your phone before customs. Presumably you have an encrypted backup you can restore without too much effort
- FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
In addition, the law that he’s charged with relates to knowingly destroying property that the police have a warrant to sieze.
There is no precedent of it being applied to border searches where they may not even have reasonable suspicion of a crime and can stop people for questioning on a whim.
The State has absolutely no claim over your personal property at that point and destroying property that the police hope and dream of siezing isn’t the same as destroying property where they’ve demonstrated probable cause to a judge.
This argument from the border patrol that you can be arrested for destroying data that is in your possession without ever been given due process and 4th amendment protections isn’t supported by precedence.
- frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
The US claims jurisdiction over its citizens wherever they are.
Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because it means you can be prosecuted in the US for stuff like going to Thailand and sexually abusing children there.
- pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
The indictment alleges that Tunick knowingly deleted the phone’s digital contents
My hot take: the officer wiped the phone. With their own hands. They’re just stupid.
- Cheebus@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
If they succeed I guess in the future an officer could delete your phone to save face then blame it on you.
- corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish6 hours
Those of us who have asked to avoid the cancer box and been subjected to a subjectively punitive pat-down and fashion show experience are already anticipating just that. Yay!
(And for added fun, call it a cancer box. Wow, when you get that one TSA who only has bad days will you get a great speech as well)
- piskertariot@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
Hotter take: The phone was empty when he handed it over. There was nothing to delete.
- 8 hours
Parallel construction is a way to present evidence illegally obtained by coming up with a plausible-seeming other way it was found.
So, rather than saying “we illegally stopped and searched the defendant” they’ll get an “informant” (sometimes paid, sometimes coerced) to swear that they tipped them off beforehand.
- 7 hours
It’s a form of lying, but with a specific meaning.
Like how the 9th (or 8th, depending on how you’re counting) Commandment says to not bear false witness. That doesn’t mean that people following an Abrahamic faith cannot lie… just that they can’t lie in that one specific way.
- Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish6 hours
It’s where he lives. He’s a citizen and was returning home from DR.
- Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
👆 cannot be overstated. My family refuses to leave or I’d be in Europe right now. I’m from there and have a house there. Do not come here.
Keep in mind we have our fascists too, and the morons that vote for them.
- village604@adultswim.fanEnglish7 hours
The border control can search any phone within 100 miles of the border. It’s bullshit
Also worth noting that since this includes coastline, it means basically 2/3 of Americans are deprived constitutional rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception#/map/0
- corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish7 hours
99% of Canada lives within 100mi of the US border, and armed agents have invaded Canada to kidnap a Canadian for ‘breaking’ an American law as a Canadian not breaking any Canadian laws, on Canadian sovereign soil, so they can render that person to America and convict there.
