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Sorry, but I fail to see how an app locking you out is more overkill than wiping all of your devices every time you cross a border.
by tghw 13y ago
Sorry, but I fail to see how an app locking you out is more overkill than wiping all of your devices every time you cross a border.
- Spearchucker 13y agoDepends on what you mean by overkill. Effort? Then yes. Security? Then no. If the data is there but inaccessible you can be detained until it is. If the data isn't there to begin with, there's no reason to detain you.
- tghw 13y agoI'd call that more of an effectiveness thing than overkill. And it would be possible for an app to not unlock the phone until it enters a certain geofence, like the hotel.
- Spearchucker 13y agoThat wouldn't work in the UK, where not providing plain text when asked carries a prison sentence.
- tghw 13y agoThe app wouldn't accept a password, just a time and location to unlock. I'm not sure if that's better, but it technically sidesteps that issue.
- Spearchucker 13y agoI said plain text, not password. And it doesn't side-step anything because when you're in front of a judge and explain why you cannot provide plain text, they'll take your phone from you, get it to the location you tell them, and if none of that yields plain text, you go to jail. Two years, they give you for that.
- jrockway 13y agoWho has gotten two years for that and lost the appeals?
- Spearchucker 13y agohttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/jail_password_ripa/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/06/jail_password_ripa/
- semanticist 13y agoThat only applies if there's a court order to reveal the data, not at random border checks.
- lukifer 13y agoI think it reads better if "overkill" above is seen as an imperative verb, as in "I suggest you overkill." :)