Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai...
by bubblethink on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:13AM
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Yes, when they are authorized to make a drug bust. And that's assuming they catch him before he flushes, i.e., get the drugs. Otherwise, what are they going to say? He is a drug dealer because we heard the flush? Or let's say they are doing a missing person's search and hear the flush. What now? We came looking for a missing person, but heard the flush, so there were drugs whose evidence he destroyed?
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Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during ai...
by kube-system on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:15AM
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Of course, tampering with evidence is — itself - a crime. And you need evidence to prove that crime.
But yeah, people tamper with evidence because they think they can get away with it. That doesn’t mean they always succeed in cleanly doing it without creating evidence of the tampering itself.