Tunick provided this code to an agent, who entered it on the phone, after which “the screen went blank, flashed several times and the phone appeared to restart.” All data on the phone was gone, but authorities confiscated it anyway.
They should be required to prove that such an OS was installed on the phone, that such a duress code was configured, and that it was the one provided, otherwise that was clearly a glitch in the phone, a cosmic ray bit flip, or the agent fumbling ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Can’t be responsible when it left his custody, right?
Yeah, they must have entered the wrong one
Device profiles can also wipe a phone after failed attempts (among many other things). The most common way for this is signing into your work’s 365 and accepting to add the device. This is so company data is automatically or remotely wiped should anything go wrong.
So far I haven’t seen anyone comment on the argument that he clearly didn’t destroy anything. He provided a code to other people who entered it and destroyed the system.
It’s a technicality, but this happened in America and God are they big on technicalitiesIsn’t that the exact point of the feature? The police are getting upset that people used a feature of an OS for its intended purpose??
