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No Warrant Needed: Border Agents in NY, CT, and VT Can Now Search Your Phone (www.gadgetreview.com)
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[–] 81 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Looks like it's time to carry a dummy phone with you if you decide to visit the US. Not really sure why any non-citizens would want to do that at this point though.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Interestingly, iOS 27 has a new “2 phones can share 1 number and you can swap between them” which didn’t seem to make a lot of sense.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    What in the what now? Just between apple phones or with android or other OS? Guess I hafta go read…

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/iphone-handoff-one-number-two-phones/

    But The Apple documentation (https://support.apple.com/en-us/127274) mentions that your iCloud gets synced between both devices, so now I’m confused what the purpose of this is

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Dang, I had other ideas!

    What you need:

    Two devices running iOS 27 or later that are: Connected to Wi-Fi Sharing the same Apple Account Using Messages in iCloud to ensure messages sync Signed into FaceTime and iMessage with the same Apple Account An eSIM from a carrier that supports iPhone Handoff: USA: T-Mobile Germany: Telekom

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    it makes sense in the backdoor sense. esims. so now uncle sam can “be” that 2nd phone.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I'm not even sure why would they even need to see your phone.
    All these idiots use cloud, just requesting data from iOS/google is sufficient in most cases. I think they don't even have to ask, they gotta have direct api access.

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