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@everyone: All this hubbub and no guarantee the phone wasn't already wiped and/or doesn't contain any sensitive information because they didn't use that phone for those purposes.

@Udik: I could just keep my tax documents in printed plaintext on top of my dresser but I opt to keep them locked up. Privacy and security are important. If people who utilize privacy/security tools are up to no good then why does the U.S. Gov't have a clause for not revealing information due to State Secrets? Why do we set our Facebook profiles to private? Why have passwords at all on anything? Are you beginning to see the point?




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