This article has me feeling my paranoid anxiety kick i
US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone is wiped during airport search
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063022
He gave them the duress passcode and it wiped the phone.
He was charged for destroying seized evidence.
Is there any solution that would, instead of wiping the phone, make totally invisible any chosen data? Or, pull up a 'dummy phone profile'?
Ugh, time to spend a few days organizing my phone so I can back it up, wipe it, and be able to smile at the customs officer when asked to hand over my phone...
I hate organizing files, but unfortunately llms keep wiping people's environments so I just gotta do it
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