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But the contents of a phone might be a recipe for homemade explosives or drugs, or a blueprint for a 3D printed gun, or the schedule for an attack.
by leereeves 10y ago
But the contents of a phone might be a recipe for homemade explosives or drugs, or a blueprint for a 3D printed gun, or the schedule for an attack.
- maxerickson 10y agoYou think it is a good use of resources to scan devices crossing the border for such easy to obtain information? Really? Of course the attack schedule is not easily obtained, but just asking such a dumb terrorist if they are a terrorist should be similarly effective.
- leereeves 10y ago> for such easy to obtain information? Is it easy to obtain in the US without being tracked?
- literallycancer 10y agoYes. Leave all electronics at home. Go to another location, avoid cameras, etc. Use a fresh device left there by someone else. Get the information, destroy device. Never go to the same place again.
- leereeves 10y agoThat doesn't sound easy to me, but then, perhaps I simply don't have the right experience.
- tptacek 10y agoIf you believe this, why not dragnet everybody's devices all the time? Surely you'd generate more recipes for explosives and drugs, and be able to prevent all sorts of crimes.
- leereeves 10y agoFor the same reason we don't frisk everyone all the time. Privacy does matter, but long ago society decided to suspend those rights at the border. If you want to revisit that, fine, but don't claim current policy is a change. Searching people at the border has been standard practice for a long time.
- tptacek 10y agoCan you be more specific about what "reason" you're referring to? It's not at all clear to me what it is from the logic you're employing upthread.
- leereeves 10y agoThe second sentence mentioned the reason. Privacy does matter. It's in the Bill of Rights. And it should matter. But like every right, it has exceptions. One exception we mostly agreed on, until recently, was being searched when crossing the border.