• utopiah ( utopiah@lemmy.ml ) 
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      3 months ago

      No because you can go to jail for that, like the dude with his GrapheneOS in the US. They’re probably working on that next.

      no… you can not go to jail, in the EU or the US at least, for having a phone with a custom OS. They are facing charge for using a duress code which wiped their phone. It is very different.

      • t3rmit3 ( t3rmit3@beehaw.org ) 
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        3 months ago

        He had a duress password, and told it to a border agent (who had no warrant, but that is no longer legally required for border checks), which then wiped his phone.

        He was targeted for being part of the Stop Cop City protest movement (and they were likely looking for contacts), and now the feds are claiming that because he could have had anything, he should be allowed to be charged with possession of whatever they can think of (I.e. they already tried to claim in a press conference that he may have had CSAM, because they couldn’t search it to prove he didn’t).