>It's not like you need to 'smuggle' any form of data physically. The data may be a by-product of using the device. I suspect they are primarly looking for com

>It's not like you need to 'smuggle' any form of data physically. The data may be a by-product of using the device. I suspect they are primarly looking for communications data that is bound to be on every device that is actively used to communicate. The more end-to-end encryption is used the more interesting the ends become. >And even if you had the data on a laptop, how does border patrol even know what they are looking at? Maybe they just copy everything for later analysis in case communications data hints at this being a person of interest.