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>No, you can't have the password to that. Yes, I know, you can hold it indefinitely. I have a hard time believing that an audience that finds buying a car stre
by navigatesol 8y ago
>No, you can't have the password to that. Yes, I know, you can hold it indefinitely.
I have a hard time believing that an audience that finds buying a car stressful (as is often stated in Tesla threads) is going to demonstrate assertiveness to a real authority...
- mcv 8y agoOf course there's a relevant xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/ But that's why relying on a trusted external party, like the company you work for, to control your access to your data, is a much more effective strategy. TSA/Chinese police can threaten and bully you, but not your co-worker in a different country following company policy.
- Zak 8y agoThe audience here is not uniform. Andreas Gal is definitely in the target audience for HN and was able to stand up to the border agents.
- chuckgreenman 8y agoPeople on Hacker News are also pretty likely to back ups. Getting your work laptop confiscated by agents will probably only earn you points at work. There's also a good argument to be made that the search is illegal, it's important that everyone stand up for that, even if its stressful. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/bill-rights-border-fourth-amendment-limits-searching-your-data-and-devices https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/04/bill-rights-border-fou...