The Atlanta resident has been charged under a rarely invoked federal statute—18 U.S.C. § 2232, a law that makes it illegal to knowingly destroy property to prevent authorities from seizing it—after he allegedly triggered a "duress password" on his phone during a warrantless border search at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport on January 24, 2025. According to The Guardian, this is the first known criminal prosecution in the United States involving the feature due to the use of a password.