The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said.
Just another example of the Trump admin trying to intimidate protestors using whatever the fuck they can to bring up whatever charges they can.
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The irony that a site called 404 doesn’t load for you 😄 here you go op. · Jul 28, 2026 at 1:27 PM The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said. ‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone Images: Samuel Tunick and 404 Media. In charging a man for allegedly typing in a duress password which wiped his privacy-focused GrapheneOS phone, the U.S. government is trying to intimidate other activists from protecting their data and participating in social movements, Samuel Tunick, the man charged, told 404 Media in an interview on Tuesday.
The case of Tunick, who participated in the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, has resonated across privacy and civil liberties circles. 404 Media first broke news of the case in December. Last week, The Guardian reported additional details including from a court hearing in the case. The maximum sentence for the alleged crime is five years in federal prison.
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Looks like the article didn’t load for you either. You just posted a couple paragraphs
Sorry, that’s a you problem.
Nope, it’s a problem with this site.
Please don’t post links to inaccessible sites like this one. It harms our communities
Loads fine for me. You’re jumping to conclusions.
You’re making assumptions.
Now try it in a text based browser. Or a security hardened browser.
404media always has this problem. We need to start banning people who link to them
Nope. It’s a you problem. Site works fine for everyone else.
Whether it loads or not, it is paywalled
That’s a very different issue from not loading.
No it’s not. If it’s pay walled, then the article does not load.
We can’t read the article. It’s not accessible. It doesn’t load
Pro tip: Copy/paste the article text into the post body, and you don’t have to waste your time arguing
No, it’s paywalled.