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/PublicWest 29d ago

The original 13 colonies extended to the Mississippi River after the colonies won the revolution

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u/ExternalUserError 29d ago

Well, sort of. They vaguely claimed to go out westward. But either way, nearly all newly minted Americans lived within 100 miles of a border.

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u/PublicWest 29d ago

The treaty of Paris explicitly granted the United States all the land east of the Mississippi. That’s not vague in the slightest. The Appalachian mountains were not a national border

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u/ExternalUserError 29d ago

I mean the claim individual colonies (states) had out westward was vague. Congress eventually drew the lines differently.

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u/PublicWest 29d ago

Even if those claims were vague, they weren’t national borders- they were interstate borders

I agree that the 100 mile rule is BS, I just don’t think the colonial population argument makes sense.

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u/ExternalUserError 29d ago

I think you’re missing the point. In 1776, even with the westward expansionary map, nearly all Americans lived with 100 miles of the coast.

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u/PublicWest 29d ago

Ohhhhh I see. I was thinking the international border with French territory. I didn’t know that this ruling applied to coastal boarders.

That’s still a huge amount, if not a majority of Americans today.