GrapheneOS is completely legal. We have no obligation to weaken any of the security protections it provides. Creating and using GrapheneOS is strongly protected by the US constitution. Laws attempting to make it illegal or require weakening the security would be unconstitutional.
'Meant to intimidate'His federal public defender, Matthew Dodge, said DHS officers called ahead to the airport and asked that Tunick be stopped and his phone searched. Agents searched his bags and person over his objections and found nothing, Dodge said, and could have sought a warrant. "They didn't do that," he said. Dodge found one other prosecution under the same statute, in a drug trafficking investigation, calling the charge "extraordinarily rare."
The government's positionA CBP spokesperson told 404 Media that all travelers are subject to inspection, and that searches of electronic devices are rare and decided case by case, taking account of travel history and law enforcement alerts. The U.S. Attorney's Office declined to comment.
