Comment by thewebguyd

Right, these goons are hand searching through phones specifically to find something, anything, they can use to make your life suck and detain you further.

A pin that boots into a dummy account, full of benign messages, photos, innocent web browsing, etc. is going to get you a pass. They'll flip through everything and get bored after a minute of not finding anything.

Far less likely to aggravate them than wiping your phone