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U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well yeah the thief can sell the hardware, but the data is wiped. Not expecting it to be a self destruct feature.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

my point is this feature does not work that well against actual petty thieves, because all other phones actively disincentivize phone theft by making it very hard or impossible to make usable without access to the owner's real account, and this one doesn't. if you as a thief know that a pixel phone runs grapheneos, it is more valuable than others because you know you can just wipe it and it is usable again.