’Oh no, you found the secret hidden password. Please, whatever you do, don’t use it!’
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
If you have a post-it in the case with this wipe password, would this get around the act of doing it yourself?
viral.vegabond@piefed.social 1 month ago
TemporalSoup@beehaw.org 1 month ago
I feel like if they’d charge you for doing it they’d also charge you for the general intent
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
They’ll charge you for anything and everything they think they can.
TehPers@beehaw.org 1 month ago
This. A charge isn’t a conviction, though.
Plausable deniability might help you here as long as you can think of a valid reason why you had that code on the note. It could be as simple as “this is the code I needed to remember for this one game” or something too. As long as you don’t tell them that the note contains the code to your phone, you can pretend the note contains a code of some other value instead later on and let them shoot themselves in the foot.
As a general rule, most lawyers would tell you if you are under arrest to say nothing more than what you are required to by law. Since this is at a border, it gets weird, but that’s what makes this case unusual as well. Under normal circumstances, they might seize the phone as evidence, but saying nothing might result in them wiping the device themselves before they ever get a warrant for the passcode.
VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 1 month ago
It would be bery funy if you wrote that this is the wipe password in very fine print or at the back lf the sticker.