Sam Tunick
person
Also written as: Tunick
Involved in
- Prosecutors charged Samuel Tunick under 18 U.S.C. § 2232(a).
- The lawyer is trying to get a US judge to dismiss all evidence recovered in the case, arguing that Tunick's constitutional rights were violated.
- The border agent failed to read Tunick his Miranda rights and ignored his requests to speak with a lawyer.
- Tunick provided a US Customs and Border Protection officer with a duress password, and when used to forcibly unlock a phone the duress password wipes all data instantly, cannot be stopped, and is irreversible.
- Samuel Tunick has pleaded not guilty.
- The operating system that got Sam Tunick prosecuted by the US government has nothing to do with unlawful practices.
- A Customs and Border Protection agent entered a passcode into Samuel Tunick's Google Pixel at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport in January 2025, causing the screen to go blank, flash, restart, and erase all data.
Statements attributed to it
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Questions it figures in
Origin: first recognised while reading GrapheneOS says its data-wiping "duress" password is perfectly legal, after user faces federal charges · 2026-08-03 17:12