The Second Circuit rejected that argument, holding that neither the Fourth nor the First Amendment carves out a special exemption for phones at the border.

The second circuit used the right argument but somehow came to the wrong conclusion. The 4th carves out no special exemption, meaning you need a warrant.

The Second Circuit rejected that argument, holding that neither the Fourth nor the First Amendment carves out a special exemption for phones at the border.

Could it be because the technology was still 250 fucking years away?

Or don't travel with a phone at all. Take a digital camera and use that for pictures.

Anything else, just buy a used phone at your destination and load all your accounts on that, then delete and reset your phone and sell it before you leave

We all need shitty travel phones with very little on them now.

Or don't travel there.

One day I’d like to perform at Carnegie Hall..

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.

if you decide to visit the US.

There is a lot more reasons not to do that than there are reasons to go there.

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.

The decision includes citizens, anyone within 100 miles from an international airport, border, or national waterway.

Refusing to unlock your properly secured device for them will result in its confiscation and perhaps your detention.

Password managers and browser history are sticking points. You could not use your device for anything, but one of your services might rat you out.

You kinda need a travel phone.

Or just don't travel to North Korea, because we are talking about the fascist dictatorship of North Korea, right? No western democracy would do this.

How long until they're caught planting fake data on phones to arrest people they don't like though?

Finally some common sense comment on this topic.

My pin is eleven digits, a number I'll never forget, and I enter it every time. No face ID for me.

Also, don't call the cops unless getting arrested is better than whatever is happening. Because, they'll use any excuse to arrest you no matter how innocent you think you are.

wipe your device clean

This will be seen as a red flag and get you a few nights-weeks stay in the Gulag.

I don't know how a self-destruct code will work, but if you have password A get into profile A, while password B gets you into a plausibly looking and normal profile B while profile A and password A get deleted, then you can claim your phone was always and ever the way profile B shows it. It doesn't look or feel "destroyed." It's just a normal profile with mundane messages, browsing history, contact list that makes sense, etc.

Good luck proving that anything fishy happened when the whole operation looks and feels like unlocking a normal phone.

You can even setup biometric login to be password B. So if someone gets into your phone with a fingerprint, which feels very normal, they see a normal boring and completely plausible profile.

There is absolutely a way to make phones secure if there is enough will.

That said, it's a political problem that's begging for a political rather than a tech solution.

Lol of course not. If you have a big Nazi coat you just get put on paid leave for a little time out, then you get your shiny job right back.

I agree, it's not a tool, it's a compromised and dangerous device and I have to carry it with me carefully. I have always turned off my location from time to time and carefully managed permissions, but nowadays here's what I do:

• Graphene
• no biometric login
• no stale data on the device. If I won't need it while I am mobile, does it need to be on my phone?
• location off, BT off, and airplane mode when going into grocery stores or any surveillance a happy retailer.
• factory wipe or alternate phone before traveling internationally, especially to countries with questionable rule of law, including my own
• minimal non-FOSS apps (getting less every time I redo the phone)
• any app that has a usable web portal or can be accessed on desktop only (Facebook, reddit) does not get installed.
• no pairing with cars or other BT devices that are known to be sketchy.

If I controlled the software on a deeper level, I would set it up to have a toggle where it will only connect to the cell network every 30-60 minutes. There is little in my life that is more important than a half hour response time, so why am I continuously broadcasting my triangulated location? I would have that toggle turned on 90% of the time.

I don't get it

Also, is this a new sfm video? Is he posting new ones? I don't recognize it.

Never has been so long as conscription exists

The pile of reasons to not visit the USA grows daily.

I believe they are hunting tourist and working on the commercialization thereof.

This ruling was specific to people entering the country, if you aren't entering the country they need a warrant still.

Encrypt all your remote hosted stuff!

You mean Americaland!