I don’t have much sympathy for prosecutors who treat a phone’s security feature as evidence of criminal intent. That instinct made this story easy to write off as one more overreach the moment I read the headline. It’s not that simple, and pretending it is would waste the more interesting story sitting right next to it. The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly giving CBP a duress passcode — the GrapheneOS feature that wipes a phone’s contents when entered under compulsion — treating the wipe itself as obstruction.