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[-] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] BlueberryWalnut@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 days ago

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?

[-] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 days ago

2 hours in a cell later, you can't enter the country

[-] Batman@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I wonder if I'd get arrested if they run out of tries then it wipes itself, as opposed to providing a duress pin.

[-] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

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

this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2026
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