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quickthrowmantoday at 1:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

Would it be permissible to wipe your phone before going through customs to get back into the US? If they ask to search your already wiped phone, you aren’t destroying any evidence.


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dredmorbiustoday at 3:09 PM

There are apparently problems with wipe/restore under GrapheneOS:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060780>

(From the HN GrapheneOS account about a month ago.)

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OutOfHeretoday at 1:58 PM

Yes. Of course it is permissible. It is your device. The wipe must have completed before arriving at the counter.

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