Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Another story said he wiped it “using a code”, so it sounds like that.

  atlpresscollective.com/…/samuel-tunick-atlanta-ac…

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• mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  instead of a destructive code, GOS should allow a code that will automatically open a secondary profile. wouldn’t get the user in trouble

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  • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I agree

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• MalMen@masto.pt ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  @favoredponcho @InternetCitizen2 I knew a guy that leaved the wipecode "hidden" in the phone case hoping that it would be entered without asking if someome took his phone

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If that’s the case, this would definitely be destruction of evidence.

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  • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You have to be charged with a crime first or actively part of a crime investigation for that to be true, even then thats Stretching.

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I really don’t think that’s how it works.

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      • fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Actually, that is how it works. And if you don’t believe us, then take 10 minutes and do a brief web search and you will find the same information… In this situation the law matches common sense which says that most of the time you are allowed to erase things on your own phone and when it is a special case then you need to know it’s a special case for it to be a crime.

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      • discocactus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sounds nice tho

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thats not true at all. The most basic example would be flushing drugs down the toilet when the piggies knock on your door.

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      • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah pretty sure if they are at your door the investigation has started. But a cell phone randomly is seriously pushing the definition of investigation me thinks.

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Evidence of what? How can you prove there was evidence? What are the limitations of using your own device as designed while not under arrest?

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  • Nastybutler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But in that case it would be CBP who did it, so…

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• crash_thepose@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yes it was

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