Ain’t that some BS
SECURE IN YOUR PERSONAL EFFECTS AND DOCUMENTS
-Bill of Suggestions
a duress password?
What a neat idea.I wonder if i can set that up on my iphone.
There isnt, for iphone
But you can set it up to wipe the phone after 10 attempts
Probably. The “Shortcuts” scripting language is actually quite functional if not well documented.
Probably a good project for vibe coding.
Definitely download the “Pulled over by the cops” one.
It sends a text with your location to someone, turns off your screen, and starts recording video.
Good don’t give those fascist fucks anything.
Prosecutors later charged Tunick under a federal statute that makes it unlawful to knowingly destroy or damage property to prevent authorities from seizing it. Tunick has pleaded not guilty.
Security experts also said they had not seen charges brought in this way before.
“With a little planning ahead of time, you can always download the data you need once you get to where you’re going,” said Sandvik.
Zip it with a password. Upload it a couple of places, download it when you get home. Simple as. Anyone can do it.
Anyone can do it.
Are you sure? My mom can’t tell the difference between posting on Facebook and doing a Google search.
This site has an insane amount of people who don’t understand how inept the average person is at using technology.
Yes. Like every time someone says “oh just do X because you have device Z” and you ask, “ok, but what about if I have y” and people come out of the woodwork to downvote you because you don’t own device Z, you own device R.
tell her to search google for her secret, then when she gets home, ask her friends
Yeah like one time I called her “Mom, what about ‘[Local Grocery Store]’?” she didn’t even stop to question why I was asking she just went on “I was looking up their phone number on the computer but the computer didn’t do what I told it to, it just showed me all my friends posts instead.”
My Mom’s VCR says the time is 12:00.
Can you mail it to me? I could really use it. I have like 1,000 VHS tapes and both my VCRs died.
Try thrift shops and eBay. I converted all my tapes, but still need to hang onto my vcrs because various friends and relatives keep asking me to convert.
When it is said that anyone can do x, I generally take that to mean that the means and methods are available to everyone if they cared to look, not that everyone already knows how to do that thing.
I’m 40 and I have no idea how to do that. I could Google it but am too lazy
I’m 38 and I do it. Level-up, Grandpa. Your age can’t be your excuse forever. And we say young people don’t like to read, fml…
Android doesn’t have as easy an option. iPhone users if they pay for iCloud storage would just wipe the device and when they get to their destination with wifi restore via iCloud.
If they don’t pay for iCloud storage they can still go to transfer or reset and kick off a temp storage where it’ll back up their whole phone for 21 days so once backed up they can wipe it an restore later. (It was designed for if a device needs to be dropped off for repair or traded in, but it would work for this as well)
Why zip it? Just use end to end encrypted remote storage
sir, your phone… SIR
“Just 20 more minutes, officer… also, what’s the wifi password in here?”
Technically, the agent who entered the code should be in trouble.
The thing is, data isn’t just property. It is also speech. The right to remain silent is so fundamental to the legal system that a whole case can be thrown out if you are not reminded of this right while being arrested.
My iPhone is backed up in the cloud and it’s a matter of minutes to restore it, though the data can take longer to appear. It’s not a real big deal for me to lose my phone, cost aside.
Unless he was subpoenaed is this a crime?
The laws are now made up when needed and justice doesn’t matter. So, yes. Anything the authorities don’t like is a crime in a fascist regime.
Kinda wild that most Americans are just going about their day while this is going on all around them.
They too busy getting by day by day, as designed by the billionaire-run system. Commuting back and forth possibly up to an hour each way, getting paid a fraction of what they should be, unable to afford a mortgage, little to savings, probably working paycheck to paycheck. Reliant on work for their insurance coverage for chronic issues that would otherwise cost tens of thousands of dollars because the medical system inflates all costs to justify its existence on paper. No time to research issues, reliant on things like an hour of TV news to inform them. And those are owned by the billionaires as well, pushing their propaganda and ignoring the real issues.
There are a lot of smaller independent things keeping people busy and stuck. While they almost all come back to the billionaires and end-stage capitalism, the propaganda from them is nearly inescapable for the average person.
This. Freaking thank you.
I called my reps to tell them to oppose the slew of bad Internet bills (badinternetbills.com) and even something so simple felt like I had to make myself an appointment to get around to it.
And it turns out I should be calling a lot more often. Oh boy.
Working class folks must struggle excessively to even be civically active while managing a ton of responsibilities domestically. That’s why you mostly see old people at local government stuff.
And these keyboard warriors are talking crap because we’re not forming militias and running weeklong campaigns against the secret police.
I really wish direct action was a lot more exciting but while we’re fighting for our rights, any number of dozens of private institutions are waiting eagerly to punish us into the pavement for missing payments.
Yeah this system needs to be rebuilt from scratch, but this is what we’re working with right now, and it sucks!
The “not my problem” society.
Under the border search exception, federal officers may generally conduct routine, warrantless searches of persons and items entering the United States without reasonable suspicion or probable cause of unlawful activity.
No.
Doing anything fascist and their gestapo dislike is a crime. being written law or not doesnt matter.
“Wiping your phone before an illegal search is now left wing terrorism”
Good. We all need to set this up. Fuck ICE and TSA.
It exists for a reason, they couldn’t have shown better why if they’d been paid to film a commercial.
Even if he did, so what? His phone, his property, his business. He should be able to do what he wants.
And…? There’s nothing illegal about wiping your phone if not already under indictment of something
My password is the text of the 4th Amendment. I don’t unlock my phone often.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt4-6-6-3/ALDE_00000239/
No need for a warrant, and the 4th amendment doesn’t apply in this case.
Under the border search exception, federal officers may generally conduct routine, warrantless searches of persons and items entering the United States without reasonable suspicion or probable cause of unlawful activity.
They have near autonomy to search you and your belongings for any reason upon entering the country.
We don’t have to let them. We can fight it to make change happen.
And we should. They are no masters.
Trying to fight them when you’re re-entering the border I guarantee you will lose. If you want to fight them, you do it in court.
But you do you
If you want to fight them in court, you need standing. To have standing, you have to have been affected by the law.
You can not fight them in court until they do something. You can not sue for what someone might do.
It’s like people pretend to know the law, but don’t actually understand shit.
okay master of this state, county, city. Explain the details…
He wasn’t being charged with anything at the time.
Set your phone to require a pin or passcode at startup then reboot your phone before going through the checkpoint.
Or just put it in Lockdown mode, effectively the same thing.
How is this illegal?
It’s not. Authoritarians want it to be.
I was kind of flabbergasted when a police office interviewed in this video just straight up said you have a right to privacy in your home, but as soon as you step out, gone.
good for him.
If border patrol claims they don’t need a warrant because he’s not in the US yet, then how does border patrol have jurisdiction?
It’s been established that anywhere within 100 miles of a “point of entry” to the US is under CBP jurisdiction. That means any airport with international flights, ports, and of course the Canadian/Mexican border
Edit: That 100 miles doesn’t extend from inland international airports. It only applies at the airport
Not just ports, but the entire shoreline - Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Gulf, it doesn’t matter.
Friendly reminder that, per the fifth amendment, you are not required to disclose your passwords to the authorities under any circumstances. This protection does not apply to biometric authentication, so don’t enable those methods.
If you have iOS you can disable it quickly by spamming the power button (button on right hand side of screen) 5 times.
Same with android
Android varies a bit depending on the software/manufacturer. It was added in Android 9 but some software releases remove it.
By default it is not enabled. You can search settings for “Lockdown”, and then it will just be an option in the menu when you hold the power button.
Looks like it’s now a permanent item in the power menu. (I just got upgraded to Android 17 and couldn’t find it in settings, but it is on my power/reboot menu options already.) Thanks for the tip, I didn’t even realize Android had this.
I did that, and it tried to call 911
For me its power + volume up
For some android phones it’s a setting. I have long press with an option for Lockdown and 5 click duress
Yep.
Biometrics are SUPER unsafe, and insecure, because you can be physically forced to put your finger on a sensor, or to stand still for them to hold a phone infront of your face for faceid. I’ve literally seen videos of cops holding a guy in a choke hold whole another cop unlocks his phone with his face.
but they can’t physically manhandle you into typing in a password.
I like to set my Biometrics to an odd finger instead of the expectation
We aren’t quite to the torture for password stage yet.
even with torture, you’d have to voluntarily give up the password.
as opposed to biometrics, where they can literally just overpower you and force you to use it. Or use it when you’re unconscious… or maybe even after you’re dead.
That’s honestly a curiosity in this for me. You dont have to unlock your phone for them but the fact that he was made to even with a duress pass makes me think that this was more than a standard stop.
He absolutely didnt have to unlock it under the law.
He was within his right to wipe it.
But what led him to doing so?
This isnt a defence of the boarder officers. Im just curious what the other side of the story is.
Edit: ah there it is. They suspected him of having csam and by implication being a sex tourist.
Heavy accusations. So they did have some suspicion (or at least claimed to) to justify the search.
There are some of us that know these things happen and take steps to protect our rights and personal data.
Most all of us here have multiple methods employed to avoid being tracked online via browser plugins or whatever. Some of us take it a step further and lock our phones should an encounter with LEOs be a possibility, and he had a wipe command to go even further.
These days the US is closer to a lot of fascist authoritarian states, and it’s probably only a short time before they throw people in jail for whatever manufactured reason because they wipe a phone before the Gestapo can pry into it and charge us with the crime of being un-American or some shit because we posted a meme mocking trump.
Doesn’t matter what his reasons were to wipe the device, that’s the point of privacy, not to hide criminal activities.
Since they just let him walk after the phone wiped itself, they clearly didn’t actually believe he was a risk of any kind. If there was any actual reason for suspicion they would/should have detained him outright.
He was put on a terrorist watchlist because he didnt want his tax dollars funding a cop city. Thats reason enough for the judge to throw this out.
From The Guardian article on the same incident:
The defendant, Sam Tunick, was stopped for interrogation at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport on 24 January last year, after vacationing in the Dominican Republic. Unbeknown to him, federal authorities had put him on a terrorism watchlist because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City.
Ahhhh
thanks!
Once again fascists cry protecting kids to violate rights.
Every time I hear someone invoking “protect the kids” I know 3 things.
- It has nothing to do with protecting kids, they’re hiding their intention.
- It’s probably some outrageous bullshit they absolutely need to hide.
- It’s probably because they are fucking kids.
Number 3 was added recently because apparently based on the facts we now know… that is MUCH more common with these people than I could even imagine.
That’s why I stopped using Google for anything. Their AI is calling people child abusers left and right. And even after a person is cleared by law enforcement, they will not let that person get their data back. It could be innocent family photos or legal adult content. Haven’t used their services in years after the NYT articles and the several others from other news organizations that followed about their awful practices. They don’t care about correcting false positives only about the perception to share holders that they are fighting child abuse by closing almost a million accounts a year. Same for Meta, who closes many millions of account per year to stop child abuse, while hosting child abuse for advertisers. I didn’t supply links to the articles, but they can be easily found through a StartPage or DuckDuckGo search or which ever search engine you use (hopefully not Google).
