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Of course you don’t. The point of my reply wasn’t to encourage you to rig your car to explode but to explain some of the reasons why it’s perfectly understandable to take every possible precaution about your phone if you think it’s possible cops will get it.
You suppose in your earlier reply that a persons unique actions must be the precursor to a level of paranoia around law enforcement that approaches destroying the phones contents. I was trying to illustrate that everyone should be extremely apprehensive about cops getting their phones, not just those who are engaged in some clandestine bullshit ala the old mad magazine marginalia.
Of course, just turning your phone off if you’ve sufficiently hardened the settings is enough for four or five years of safety on ios and at least a year or two on android.