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American Being Prosecuted for Wiping His Phone Before Handing It Over to Border Officials
<p>He’s being prosecuted for giving border officials a code that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/">wiped his phone</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixe
Indicators of compromise
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/url
- https://boingboing.net/2026/07/25/grapheneos-duress-password-border-search.htmlurl
- https://gizmodo.com/a-feature-that-makes-your-phone-data-self-destruct-in-authorities-hands-may-soon-have-its-day-in-court-2000790831url
- https://www.pcmag.com/news/grapheneos-defends-data-wiping-function-that-blocked-us-border-searchurl