The exact circumstances around the search are not known. But activist Samuel Tunick is charged with deleting data from a Google Pixel before CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team could search it.
If anyone is interested in having a feature to wipe your phone, GRAPHENEOS has a duress pin option that will wipe your phone from the lock screen and leave only the OS installed. AFAIK this us only available on Google Pixel devices like the gentleman in the article had.
I think the prosecutor is going to drop the charges because I don’t think he broke a law. So we’ll not find out…
But also, the defendant doesn’t have to prove anything and would probably be wise not to testify in court. If you decide that you’re going to testify at all, then they can ask you a lot of other questions that you probably don’t want to answer. So almost all of the time you should shut the fuck up. :-)
Well, the “free” state of Fl*rida just made it a misdemeanor to cover your license plate with materials that prevent those fucking Flock cameras from scanning it and putting you in a database so they can use the 'ole American warrantless data purchase loophole (a time-worn classic) to sell your location data to law enforcement and other third parties and upgrades the offense to a felony if used to commit another crime which in Florida could be just about anything. They (or any red state shithole) could literally make sneezing a misdemeanor and get away with it at this point while the MAGAts cheer because only the “bad people” sneeze, not them, never. So all the red state legislatures will probably collaborate to whip up some new bullshit laws at suspiciously the same time stating that if a person attempts to wipe their phone while being detained or gives a false self destruct duress pin to an officer it’s now a class a/type 1/highest tier whatever felony with up to a bajillion years in prison. Then if the courts block it they’ll appeal to a different, Trump appointed judge who will rule that a person “has no reasonable expectation of privacy during detainment by a public defender because they are now legally by definition in public” or some shit all in the name of freedumb of course.
So maybe you can do something that relies on them fucking it up. Set the lock to, for example, 43o1. Set the duress pin to 4301.
If asked for the pin, say “four three oh one”. Chances are good they’ll interpret the “oh” as a 0. They can play back any recordings they have as evidence, and you’ll clearly be on record saying something that was not the pin they typed in. You did not mislead them.
Fl*rida just made it a misdemeanor to cover your license plate with materials that prevent those fucking Flock cameras from scanning it
That’s not even remotely new. It’s been illegal to cover a licence plate with anything that obstructs it being read, manually or otherwise, for as long as we’ve had licence plates.
They may have tweaked the language a little here and there; but that law has always been around in some form.
Well one could possibly coat the license plate with a material that left those cameras unable to scan the plate, while any human could read it just fine, not even knowing there was something different about it. I would be totally in favor of that.
If anyone is interested in having a feature to wipe your phone, GRAPHENEOS has a duress pin option that will wipe your phone from the lock screen and leave only the OS installed. AFAIK this us only available on Google Pixel devices like the gentleman in the article had.
https://grapheneos.org/features#duress
It’d be fascinating to see how this plays out in the courts.
Technically it’d be the officers themselves performing the wipes, right? Could you say you got the pins mixed up in your head and get away with it?
I think the prosecutor is going to drop the charges because I don’t think he broke a law. So we’ll not find out…
But also, the defendant doesn’t have to prove anything and would probably be wise not to testify in court. If you decide that you’re going to testify at all, then they can ask you a lot of other questions that you probably don’t want to answer. So almost all of the time you should shut the fuck up. :-)
Well, the “free” state of Fl*rida just made it a misdemeanor to cover your license plate with materials that prevent those fucking Flock cameras from scanning it and putting you in a database so they can use the 'ole American warrantless data purchase loophole (a time-worn classic) to sell your location data to law enforcement and other third parties and upgrades the offense to a felony if used to commit another crime which in Florida could be just about anything. They (or any red state shithole) could literally make sneezing a misdemeanor and get away with it at this point while the MAGAts cheer because only the “bad people” sneeze, not them, never. So all the red state legislatures will probably collaborate to whip up some new bullshit laws at suspiciously the same time stating that if a person attempts to wipe their phone while being detained or gives a false self destruct duress pin to an officer it’s now a class a/type 1/highest tier whatever felony with up to a bajillion years in prison. Then if the courts block it they’ll appeal to a different, Trump appointed judge who will rule that a person “has no reasonable expectation of privacy during detainment by a public defender because they are now legally by definition in public” or some shit all in the name of freedumb of course.
So maybe you can do something that relies on them fucking it up. Set the lock to, for example, 43o1. Set the duress pin to 4301.
If asked for the pin, say “four three oh one”. Chances are good they’ll interpret the “oh” as a 0. They can play back any recordings they have as evidence, and you’ll clearly be on record saying something that was not the pin they typed in. You did not mislead them.
This is actually some ridiculously smart advice. Do they have alphas in unlock code?
Looks like yes, you can use a duress password, which to me implies alphas.
That’s not even remotely new. It’s been illegal to cover a licence plate with anything that obstructs it being read, manually or otherwise, for as long as we’ve had licence plates.
They may have tweaked the language a little here and there; but that law has always been around in some form.
Well one could possibly coat the license plate with a material that left those cameras unable to scan the plate, while any human could read it just fine, not even knowing there was something different about it. I would be totally in favor of that.
The law bans that too.
The original law? What’s the wording on that I wonder…
Before it was a traffic infraction. At most you would pay a fine. Now it goes on your criminal record.
As someone who accidentally entered the duress pin, I can confirm. It’s highly effective.
“Hey, babe. Let me look at your text messages.”
“Uh, sure, let me just ‘unlock’ it.”
"Wait, why did you say that with quotes?’
“Oh, bad news, hun, seems my phone wiped itself.”
This arrest is the best damn advertisement ever
My work phone has enabled “wipe if pin is wrong three times”.
I discovered after my son wiped it three times. I must though it was defective and asked for replacement
Yeah, I think it needs to be “wipe if a specific pin is entered”, so you can wipe it only when you intend to.
Side note, my son has called the cops on several occasions by hitting the emergency button on the lock screen. Kids just have to play with it…
I’ve almost done this on several occasions by locking my phone and putting it in my pocket while the screen was still on. Happened way too easily.
That works only for a subset of users able and willing to remember yet another PIN. Especially one they don’t need often.
I beleve this feature was demonstrated in Mr. Robot at one point.
I need to hurry up and install that