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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dredmorbius 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.)

	▲	TheqO 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That link says you can't take a image of the disk prior to wiping. OP is talking about just backing up what you need off-phone and then wiping it.
	▲	HybridStatAnim8 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What problems are you referring to?

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OutOfHere 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	laughing_man an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I wouldn't assume that to be the case. It's illegal under federal law to destroy evidence of a crime. Just what the government needs to do to show that you've destroyed evidence of a crime and not just the sexting you did with your girlfriend is a pretty murky area of law, from what I can tell. I would not present a phone to customs that had clearly just been wiped.