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The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border (www.theverge.com)

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Sam Tunick allegedly gave federal agents a fake ‘duress password’ at the airport.

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[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think you understand how low-level DFU can be. The device can have a wiped emmc and you'd still be able to talk to it and start reflashing it.

There are some devices where the USB firmware and bootloader are in mask rom.