You surely mean the fascist government needs no pretext to put a man in prison.
Tunick’s legal team is now trying to have the evidence thrown out. It argues that he was questioned without being read his Miranda rights, that agents repeatedly refused his requests to speak with a lawyer, and that the phone search was an unreasonable seizure.
So who’s really in the wrong here?
As a guy who knows nothing about the laws here:
If those were cops, that search and seizure would be completely illegal and they would get laughed out of court. You can’t force someone to give you their password.
Now these were border people. That part of the american justice system seems already pretty lawless. Whether or not they are allowed to do what they did will be a central part of the case.
Also they pressured him to give them the code to unlock the phone and seemingly typed it in themselves. So maybe you can argue that it was their fault for not researching GrapheneOS and they destroyed the evidence.
This whole thing seems stupid and about some power tripping border-guards.
Interesting, I had wondered if/when we’d get a story like this. It seems kind of crazy to me that this guy chose to wipe it in the airport instead of before traveling, particularly if the US actually has laws that allows it to prosecute him in this scenario.
It’s not that crazy. Do you wipe your phone every time you travel? It’s the most secure but least convenient option.
I don’t travel overseas often, so yes - I probably would wipe it the next time. Restoring from a backup is pretty quick and easy these days, so I would feel comfortable leaving it in a barebones state until clearing customs and border security.
But I also don’t use GrapheneOS, nor would I ever use the duress PIN feature. I expect people using both to take their privacy and security more seriously than me and be willing to take the extra precautions rather than emergency wiping at the last minute when things go wrong. I feel like it’s pretty dumb to be an anti-cop political activist in the US at the moment with GrapheneOS on your phone and then not look into or think about any of this stuff beforehand.
id say the security from law enforcement is one half of the threat model, but graphenos is also about protecting me from google selling my data for a dollar.
He was also denied a lawyer 4 times. Fuck the police.
The motion also states that Tunick asked four times to speak with a lawyer and was denied each time.
What? You don’t have a right to a lawyer now? Man that country just doesn’t know how to do anything right
They claim it’s because he hasn’t passt the voarder to the us yet. Which makes me wonder why other us laws against this guy apply anyway
