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U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you seize their phone, tell them your passcode is explicitly not the destruction code, and do not answer any more questions besides insisting this.

I feel like there might be a couple of things you have the the wrong way around in this sentence.

[–] Heide@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

The destruction code: 4321

"Well, the code definitely isn't 4321"