[ncallaway]

Yes, but I’m not going to unlock my phone with a passcode, and unlike biometric unlock they have no way to force me to unlock my phone.

The district courts will eventually back me up on this. Our country has fallen a long way, but the district courts have remained good, and my case is unlikely to be one that goes up to appellate courts, where things get much worse.

There’s an important distinction: the government doesn’t care about what it is allowed to do, but it is still limited by what it is not capable of doing. It’s important to understand that they still do have many constraints they operate under, and that we need to find and exploit those constraints as much as possible while we fight them

[direwolf20]

They are capable of putting you in prison until you unlock your phone, or simply executing you.

[tclancy]

Feels like the latter would be counter-productive unless there's an app for that.

[ncallaway]

They are, but again, district courts have been pretty good, and I would be out of jail in <30 days, unless my case goes up on appeal.

And if I die in jail because I won’t unlock my phone: fuck ‘em, they’ll have to actually do it.

I don’t plan on being killed by the regime, but I don’t think I would’ve survived as a German in Nazi Germany, either. I’m not putting my survival above everything else in the world.