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No, to my knowledge, they ask you to enter your PIN/password yourself. They don't enter it for you. I believe he entered it himself, at which point the erasure
by OutOfHere 2mo ago
No, to my knowledge, they ask you to enter your PIN/password yourself. They don't enter it for you. I believe he entered it himself, at which point the erasure began. The erasure process was witnessed by the officer.
- foo12bar 2mo agoFrom https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/activist-charged-with-felony-after-giving-border-agent-duress-code-that-wiped-his-phone/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/activist-charged-wit... > Tunick provided this code to an agent, who entered it on the phone, after which “the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart.”
- rglover 2mo ago[dead]
- greatgib 2mo agoSo the real problem in the end is that your duress system should not put a big message "erasing all data" but "loading" slowly and just look mostly empty.
- OutOfHere 2mo agoYou sir have nailed it. Unfortunately, GrapheneOS seems too stuck up to eagerly appreciate and address such real world nuances.
- Cider9986 2mo agoThey don't add features that rely on security through obscurity, would give attackers tons of attack surface, is physically impossible to make actually deniable, and could put regular GrapheneOS users in physical danger in authoritarian regimes.