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A UK power plant was shut down for four days, and the government blames Iranian hackers. But the real story isn’t about foreign adversaries — it’s about how the same vulnerabilities that enabled Stuxnet are being exploited to justify more surveillance and military spending instead of fixing the code. The fear is the point.
The UN Cybercrime Convention isn’t about fighting cybercrime. It’s a surveillance treaty that legalizes dragnet state monitoring of digital communications. Governments quietly sign it while promising to protect your privacy. This is the quiet betrayal of digital rights by institutions meant to protect them – and it’s happening right now, without your consent.
The U.S. government is criminalizing the act of deleting your own phone data, turning a defensive privacy tool into a felony charge. This case sets a precedent that could make any secure wipe, from GrapheneOS to factory reset, an obstruction of justice. Your right to silence doesn’t extend to your phone anymore—and the state is coming for the software that protects it.
The US government’s prosecution of a citizen for wiping their phone at the border sets a dangerous precedent: protecting your own data can now be interpreted as a federal crime. If you travel internationally with a smartphone, the government is effectively telling you that your control over your digital identity ends at the border. When privacy tools are redefined as obstruction of justice, we have no rights left.