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That sounds by definition not random.
Came here to say this.
https://grapheneos.org/ is waiting for its time to shine
You get arrested for wiping your phone at the border as we learned last month.
For now people that need to cross the border should probably carry a travel phone and mail their real one.
Or don’t take your real phone with you. Memorise a tinyURL that takes you to a place you can restore your original phone contents or even just a password vault, which allows you to reconnect to your important services once you have access to a clean phone again.
What’s your pin?
I don’t recall at the moment.
What’s your pin?
I don’t recall at the moment.
What’s your pin?
2 hours in a cell later, you can’t enter the country
I wonder if I’d get arrested if they run out of tries then it wipes itself, as opposed to providing a duress pin.
I don’t know…
Over the years the courts have decided that LEOs can’t force you to give your pin/password. The issue that wasn’t really addressed is why US citizens lack certain rights in the grey zone between US and international territory.
This all seems illegal but I’m not a laywer
Some guy is currently facing federal charges for exactly that:
Samuel Tunick is facing a federal felony after data on his Google Pixel was erased while Customs and Border Protection officers were trying to search the device at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. His attorneys are challenging the legality of the search, putting the government’s border search powers at the center of the criminal case.
The encounter occurred on January 24, 2025, after Tunick returned to the United States from the Dominican Republic and was sent to secondary inspection. Federal officers sought access to his phone, and court records state that Tunick eventually provided a passcode. When an officer entered it, the screen went blank, flashed several times and appeared to restart. Prosecutors allege the phone’s contents had been deleted.
A federal grand jury indicted Tunick in November 2025 under 18 U.S.C. § 2232(a). The law makes it a crime to knowingly destroy, damage or take other action against property for the purpose of preventing or interfering with the government’s lawful authority to take it into custody. A conviction can carry up to five years in prison.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71998357/united-states-v-tunick/
A federal grand jury indicted Tunick in November 2025 under 18 U.S.C. § 2232(a). The law makes it a crime to knowingly destroy, damage or take other action against property for the purpose of preventing or interfering with the government’s lawful authority to take it into custody. A conviction can carry up to five years in prison.
This just smells like a techbro version of “arrested for resisting arrest”.
How does a duress pin prevent them from taking the device into custody?
And if you forgot you had a duress pin, hence weren’t “knowingly” damaging anything, would that be a useful defense?
I think the govt is just pissy that they couldn’t plant any evidence.
I’m all about owning my own devices, and have rooted every single Android device I’ve had over the years, but all of this is really making me want to go full Graphene. Locked bootloader and everything. Hell, even my wife installed Graphene on her Pixel after researching security options for it. I use Syncthing to back up everything I deem important to my NAS, so outside of a couple apps, I could confidently wipe my phone right now and have mostly everything restored within the hour…
Fuck. I think I know what I’m doing this weekend.
I installed Graphene last spring and went FOSS for all of my apps and don’t use Google Services. Syncthing is amazing for backing up my phone data. I hardly have to think about it, other than to actually back it up from time to time to an unsynced drive so that I don’t oopsie lose something. It’s remarkable how much bullshit I avoid now.
What do you use to backup your grapheneOS? Can it do a full restore after a clean boot?
Haven’t tried that. I’m just talking about personal files.
He’s a hero for testing it.
For those not in the know, this can be risky too.
It would be so awesome, if more devices were supported.
Once Motorola releases their phone with GrapheneOS, maybe other vendors might be willing to release phones upon which GrapheneOS can run. But there are alternatives like CalyxOS
Maybe backup your phone, wipe it, and restore it?
The solution to school shootings is not to focus on dodgeball.
This is a comment about phone privacy.
What if we gave the teachers guns though? Surely, those scraping by for supplies to teach with will have the free time to practice shooting.
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bot accts gonna bot, huh?
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You are an antisemite who wants to exterminate Palestinian Semites. You support a settler-colonial power whose founders were terrorists who carried out many terrorist attacks that killed Jews in Palestine: the King David Hotel bombing (17 Jews killed), the SS Patria disaster (233 Jews killed), and the ordered murder of a Jewish journalist, Jacob Israël de Haan.
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Semite people are people who have semetic languages.
how is being against israel a form of antisemitism? go on. tell me.
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We are against israel because it is a settler colonial genocidal state . The day israel return stolen land in the west bank and allow a palestinian state we will no longer have any issue with it
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If you believe the whole land belong to Israel then you support genocide. All Palestinians should be exterminated for Israel from river to the sea to stay a Jewish dominated land.
Do you realize that many jews are against Israel? You must be an antisemite who believe in the BS of self hating jews
In his book The Land of Israel in the Past and Present Ben gurion said : the local Palestinian agricultural workers (the Fellahin) were actually the direct descendants of the ancient Jewish and Samaritan farmers who had remained on the land after the Roman expulsions.
Palestinians are indigenous to the land
you still did not answer my question, nor did I say i was against israel. (i am, but i never said it in this thread, so…)
try again, you bootlicking nazi bot account.
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Hitler is israel’s role model
Since you’re against Israel because it has been attacked by terrorists,
It has already been proven the Israeli government funded this terrorist organization and was aware of the attack before it happened. It is theorized that Netanyahu used this to keep the heat off his corrupt dealings.
because the narrative of a fake genocide
Nothing fake about it.
genocide against Jews, by working with precisely these people to destabilize and Islamize the entire West, etc., etc.
This is the fake genocide you must be talking about. No evidence of a genocide being committed against the Jewish population in Israel.
Because all the facts are being ignored—such as the fact that Hitler is idolized in Gaza
There is no evidence, other than some translations of Mein Kampf found in some residences. The current president of the US, and Israel closest ally, is also known to have Mein Kampf by his bed side.
because the population in Gaza isn’t declining but increasing
Sure does look like their population is getting blown up.
because there is absolutely no criticism of the more than 15 terrorist groups,
Sure, no criticism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Hamas
but for thousands of years, all the way back to the Twelve Tribes of Israel, etc.
I encourage you to read the actual history of the area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel
The ridiculousness of your claim is borne out in this video made to poke fun at the ridiculous claims that the Jewish population has a legitimate claim to this area.
You’ll only be happy once Palestine has achieved its goal
Oh gosh, what about Israel’s goals of elimination of the Palestinians which they are currently doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intent_and_incitement_in_the_Gaza_genocide
Let’s see a picture of a city in Israel to compare with Gaza.
Hmm well the facts don’t seem to support anything you are saying. Cheers!
Actually the population decreased by 10% https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/en/post-details/?postId=23319
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Go fucking kill yourself. By yesterday.
I’m not interested in these facts, and reality
FTFY
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Israeli leaders themselves brag about their crimes against humanity. Netanyahu said he will never allow a Palestinian state, not because of Hamas or any other group he said he will never allow one because he believes the land belongs to Israel. Why do you support settler colonialism? The more reputable genocide expert say it is a genocide and you think people will believe a random person like you?
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Again, Zionists said there will never be a Palestinian state because the land is ours. You yourself believe that the entire land only belongs to Israelis.
Before hamas ever won, israel was continuing doing terrorist acts in the west bank and enforce an illegal blockade on Gaza
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France and the British built infrastructure in colonized lands while killing the natives, typical supremacist and racist bullshit. And that infrastructure is serving the colonizers in the West Bank, not the Palestinians.
Every single goddamn rocket fired at Israel is a response to Israeli terrorism, like expelling Palestinians from entire neighborhoods, kidnapping Palestinian kids, and massive colonizer pogroms.
