Sparks: Is it illegal to trick the US government into wiping your phone during a questionably legal search?

The gentle despotism does not break the will to privacy; it merely teaches citizens that their data belongs to the state, so they gradually cease to want it back.

The application for device access was complete, but the department confirmed that the confiscation could not proceed because the warrant for confiscation was still pending review by the department issuing the warrant.

We hold it that the right to keep one's papers safe is not granted by the state but is a self-evident truth that the state must not violate, lest the general warrant return to haunt us all.

As water finds its path through the crack in the stone, the truth finds its way through the encryption, and the state attempts to dam the flow by breaking the vessel itself.

'The device was wiped in accordance with protocol.' Note the grammar. No subject. No agent. The wiping happened by itself; the protocol executed itself. Somewhere between the passive voice and the nominalization, the person who ordered the destruction disappeared entirely.