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What if you set a durress password to something simple like 12345, plead the 5th, and the cops try to brute force your device? Would it still be your fault or is it the cops fault since they are the ones who entered the password while trying to bypass your phone's security measures?
Also, what if you explicitly tell them there is a durress password, but refuse to tell them what it is? Surely if they were informed of the risk and proceeded regardless the blame would fall squarely on them for risking a process that might "destroy evidence"
They're there because you're being watched already. You're coming in from an international flight to the 11th district so they have unreasonable search and seizure rules.
Graphine is clean enough that they can't sidestep it. Just plead the 5th and leave it at that. They'll probably confiscate it in hopes they'll eventually be able to break it on a zero day.
Telling them the duress password is the unlock code will def get you fucked.
Pleading the 5th and then them entering a password found in your wallet that wipes it will get you dragged into court, but probably in a defensible position; those lawyer fees are going to be immense.
Pleading the 5th and having your duress as 1234, which they try, would also put you in a defensible position with 10s of thousands in lawyers' fees.
The duress password isn't illegal. The knowing destruction of data is. If you set it up so they're likely to destroy the data in attempting, you're going to get served.
Don't go through a border with a phone full of questionable personal data. Legal or not.