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Why would airport security care about your reasoning? They don't need a warrant when you're still outside the border, and they most likely are not in a position
by Freak_NL 9y ago
Why would airport security care about your reasoning? They don't need a warrant when you're still outside the border, and they most likely are not in a position to bargain with you on what they may and may not do — and they probably won't respond favourably to any attempt to do so.
- gargravarr 9y agoTrue on all counts, but it might make the person actually doing the search question their own motives for doing so. Just because they have the power to conduct random warrantless searches with no prior suspicion (which I totally abhor as it likely leads to racial profiling, like Stop and Search here in the UK), does not mean they need to use it. Then again, I'm a university-educated white male. It'll probably never happen to me, but will disproportionately to others.
- emile14 9y agoI'm not sure that security people have "motives" - I think they have jobs. If their job requires asking random people to decrypt their phones, then attempting to enlighten them is only going to annoy them.