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I think you are vastly overestimating the amount of analysis that border guards are capable of.

Once it's a known feature, analysis finding out about it would be added to commercial forensic tools. Given the first two links, simply hooking up a computer to the unlocked phone would allow Cellebrite to give border guards the information that you are using a hidden partition in a user friendly UI.

For example, documents like this[1] document any features that law enforcement should be aware of.

[1] https://www.swgde.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2025-08-21-...

Yes but you can't be forced to produce your pin

This is where it should have ended, not on "oh no you put the wrong pin then it caught fire"

Oh and no, almost no legal interpretation will agree with "oh you just forgot the key, the data is still there so it doesn't count as destruction".

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