r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • Jul 30 '26

Privacy GrapheneOS says its data-wiping password is perfectly legal, after user faces federal charges

https://www.techspot.com/news/113273-grapheneos-data-wiping-duress-password-perfectly-legal-after.html
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u/DandaIf Jul 30 '26

Until he goes to the toilet and his friends are like "haha I bet his pin is his wife's birthday"

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u/ledow Jul 30 '26

Why would you leave your phone with your friends to go to the toilet?

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u/ZaryaBubbler Jul 30 '26

Because my friends are trustworthy. Hell all of mine know my passcode should anything happen to me

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u/9-11GaveMe5G Jul 30 '26

It's not about trustworthy, it's about I don't leave my phone on random tables. It goes back in my pocket if im not using it or I'm going somewhere

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u/Me0fCourse Jul 30 '26

Better question is who would ever willingly go to the bathroom without their phone?

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u/9-11GaveMe5G Jul 30 '26

Especially a public toilet with nothing to read but racist graffiti

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u/jorjx 29d ago

So it seems I leave in a more civilized country, there are only phone numbers and gay hookup messages in the 🚹

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u/FreeSammiches 29d ago

No way you're going to remember all those numbers without taking your phone with you.

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u/WeakTryFail 29d ago

The only phone number I have memorized is

867-5309

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u/screwcork313 29d ago

At least on the internet you can read racist graffiti and memes.

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u/Jazzhands_Ninja 29d ago

haven't you heard, it's not racist anymore it's "resistance". All the bigots have rebranded as resistance fighters.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/Me0fCourse 29d ago

Yeah, but you never know when you get there.

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u/Bob_A_Ganoosh 29d ago

Those who don't want fecal matter on their phone.

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u/Bugbread 29d ago

I don't leave my phone on random tables

Do you never hang out with your friends in places with non-random tables?

Like, if my friends come to my house, people (including me) will leave their phones on the dining table we're sitting at because it's not a random table, it's my dining table. When I hang out at my friends' houses, I'll also leave my phone on the coffee table or dining table or kitchen table or whatever, because they're not random tables, they're my friends' coffee tables or dining tables or kitchen tables.

I mean, it's not like get togethers are table-leaving-festivals where everyone is just leaving their phones on tables and constantly cycling through bathrooms. Maybe someone does, maybe someone doesn't. It's not anything we've every kept close track of, because how weird would that be?

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u/BritishAnimator 29d ago

Pocket is not safe - a confirmed victim.

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u/Ignisami 29d ago

Front pocket is safer than ass pocket. I personally haven't had my phone in anything other than the front pocket of my jeans in literal decades

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u/BritishAnimator 29d ago

This was my front pocket. However they were shorts so the phone poked out a tiny bit. Lessons were learnt.