Activist Charged With Felony After Using Duress Password to Wipe Phone at Border

Atlanta activist Samuel Tunick faces felony evidence-destruction charges after entering a duress password — one that factory-resets the device — on his GrapheneOS Pixel during a 2025 CBP border search. Prosecutors say he destroyed evidence; his defense calls the search unlawful and notes no evidence existed. Worth flagging: a conviction could criminalize a security feature standard in enterprise and OS-level mobile protection.