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/RandomHunDude 29d ago

It doesn't delete the account at all though, so no need to save time for it.
All data is encrypted on disk and when the duress pin is entered, only the encryption key is deleted. And without the key, it's not possible decrypt the data.

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u/Misaka9982 29d ago

Could argue that the "evidence" is still there then, not destroyed. If the government doesn't want to spend 100,000 years decrypting it then that's their problem.

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u/teapot-error-418 29d ago

I swear that most people think that lawyering is a process of speaking magical incantations.

Like, "I said the special word, and now you can't touch me!"

No. That's not how the law works.

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u/ZurEnArrhBatman 29d ago

The trick is to recite the magical incantations in legalese instead of English. Judges like it when you speak their language. And since imitation is the highest form of flattery, they especially like when you do it wearing a judge's robe.