A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.
My iPhone is backed up in the cloud and it’s a matter of minutes to restore it, though the data can take longer to appear. It’s not a real big deal for me to lose my phone, cost aside.
Also, if you know it’s gonna be seized, you can just click the power button five times, and that puts it in lockdown mode which disable all interface ports, wired and wireless, and completely encrypts it with a special lockdown password. Enter that incorrectly enough times, and the phone wipes itself.
My iPhone is backed up in the cloud and it’s a matter of minutes to restore it, though the data can take longer to appear. It’s not a real big deal for me to lose my phone, cost aside.
Also, if you know it’s gonna be seized, you can just click the power button five times, and that puts it in lockdown mode which disable all interface ports, wired and wireless, and completely encrypts it with a special lockdown password. Enter that incorrectly enough times, and the phone wipes itself.