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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 2 days ago by artyom@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said.

Just another example of the Trump admin trying to intimidate protestors using whatever the fuck they can to bring up whatever charges they can.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean it couldn't hurt but as far as I know there is no active full chain vulnerability for GOS so you could just not and they have no way to access it.

[–] lps2@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have no doubt that the government has access to zero days and/or just straight up image your phone so they can crack it at a later point in time if/when it is convenient to them. I used to think that was giving them too much credit and is in tinfoil hat territory but with the convergence of private interests and government, I truly think this is the reality of what can/does happen

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have big doubts. We've seen them struggle with less.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They have Israeli tools now. Not all govt is inept.

[–] TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Israeli tools are, as far as we know at this time, unable to break into a phone running graphene in the "before first unlock" state. Literally just turning your phone off before going through the checkpoint (as long as you're running GOS) will be enough from a technical standpoint.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

good to know

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

The Israeli tools openly advertise that they can't break GOS.