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> wipe your devices But then you risk: > They said, ‘Next time you come through, don’t have a cleared phone,’
by coin 10y ago
> wipe your devices
But then you risk:
> They said, ‘Next time you come through, don’t have a cleared phone,’
- pmiller2 10y agoThat and the bit about the bill that would increase CBP's power to detain and strip search Canadians entering the US were the two most troubling things in the article, IMO.
- confounded 10y agoWhy Canadians?
- mahyarm 10y agoIt's the pre-screen areas are inside Canadian airports, on Canadian lands. Anything the us border cops can do there, they do so with the permission of the Canadian government.
- mcpherrinm 10y agoIn some Canadian airports, there's "pre-clearance", where you go through American customs while still on Canadian soil. Right now, they can't hold you, because you're in Canada -- so if they aren't going to let you in, you can just leave, back into Canada. There was a recent (Canadian) bill that gives US customs the ability to hold and search in pre-clearance, in Canada.
- chipperyman573 10y agoIf the alternative is just to go back to Canada, why would they want to hold you anyway?
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- andrewflnr 10y agoQuite. Once you have such an E2E encrypted cloud, the next step is to simply not bring your device over the border, but rather buy/rent one in the country you arrived in and load your stuff on that one. The only problem is finding hardware you can sort of trust.
- sneak 10y agoMy phone almost always costs around a thousand dollars, roughly the amount the guy persecuted by the CBP was complaining about losing on flights. It's also instrumental for getting me from the airport I land at to my hotel, as well as remembering the name and address of the hotel I need to travel to from the airport. I would do what you suggest but a) the Apple store isn't always open when I land, and b) I have no way of summoning a non-taxi to get there (or to where I am sleeping).
- tempestn 10y agoAnd besides, it still wouldn't help. They could hand you a device and tell you to log into your social media accounts. If you say you don't have the passwords because of whatever technical measures you cooked up to make them temporarily inaccessible, you're back to, "Don't do that next time. You're not entering today."
- sneak 10y agoThey have to let US citizens in, provided you've proven citizenship.
- xyzzy_plugh 10y agoI'd be interested in their response to this technical measure: they're written down in a book on my desk at home.
- stuaxo 10y agoThey would probably tell younto bring them next time.
- dallashoxton 10y agoIf there is nothing more suspicious than a cleared device, the next step in the privacy arms race is to automate the generation of an innocuous but prolific history for cleared devices and find a way to link that history with decoy accounts, preferably accounts that have existed for a while and that have been created solely for that purpose. Scripts could be written to populate a system with an inoffensive browser history and file usage that reflects light-moderate casual use, the only issue is making any attempts at spoofing appear congruent, believable and not anachronistic with whatever dummy accounts you present. It's extreme and absurd, yes, but preferable to have them snooping in on your actual life. I suspect crossing the border in the future will be on the same level of 'invasive' as a personal audit.