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‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone (www.404media.co)
submitted 4 days ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 64 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The government is a bunch of clowns. What gives them the right to tell him what he can or can't do with his own personal device?

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 32 points 3 days ago

What gives them the right

The monopoly on violence.

[–] cadekat@pawb.social 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

To be clear I don't agree with this statement, but the steelman counterargument would be something like: if the president of the United States were to destroy evidence of a crime, shouldn't that also be a crime?

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Have to be accused of a crime first for this to apply. The victim here was purely the target of extra customs search due to his support of a politically unfavored cause

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 days ago

He has, and as far as I know he hasn't been held accountable, so I guess this guy's fine, right?