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Yes. This thread is full of people proposing inventive technical solutions to genuinely prohibit your own access to the device while you're going through custom
by rlue 7y ago
Yes. This thread is full of people proposing inventive technical solutions to genuinely prohibit your own access to the device while you're going through customs, as if border patrol a) knows the difference and b) gives a damn. These are all functionally equivalent to "Um, I forgot my password." (Or, if you wish for a more plausible but equally ineffective excuse, "This is actually my mother's laptop; I'm bringing it to her and I don't know the password.")
If an LEO (claims to) need access to something and you give him a dead end, it's his job to assume you're lying and find the next legal option available to him.
The real question you should be asking yourselves isn't "How would you outsmart the caveman cop in this situation?" Rather, it's "What can/will you do, as a citizen, to resist the erosion of our civil liberties?" Sadly, I have no easy answers here.
- abeyer 7y ago> it's his job to assume you're lying and find the next legal option available to him. Not sure where you live, but in the US it's actually his first and foremost responsibility to uphold a constitution that says that people are free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
- endymi0n 7y agoWell, in a country with a for-profit, for-"performance" law enforcement system, where prosecutors are paid by how many people they put in jail and cops are paid by how many traffic tickets they write, do you really think some paper from 1787 is going to have much influence on a TSA agent if their paycheck depends on sorting out as many "bad guys" as possible?
- Amygaz 7y agoOh you should try that at US border. Let us know how well it worked out... Spoiler alert: If not cooperating, then BPO not friendly; Else, please proceed.
- krageon 7y ago> people are free from unreasonable searches and seizures I want to say "clearly you have never used US customs", though I suppose it's possible you have and you are just very lucky.
- thefringthing 7y agoThe Canadian constitution (specifically the part of it called the Charter of Rights and Freedoms) guarantees the same right, however, constitutional rights in Canada are granted only up to "reasonable limits". Those limits are determined by the Supreme Court.
- fredgrott 7y agobetter solution access stuff via ssh graphically another desktop machine for all work and browsing...last access remove the ssh key than when CBP ask for password give it and watch them search the laptop.. You full filled your legal obligation to follow their orders despite the illegality its now their problem they cannot find anything Note...all social public stuff is searchable on google..tweets facebook postings etc.. CBP never needs a password they are searching with that password for other reasons than the ones they GIVE