Travelers describe wiping devices before crossing the border
4 Sep 18 3:04 PM · 5d ago · 7 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 6
Commenters said some companies already issue employees wiped phones or burner devices for US travel, a practice some said predates the Trump administration.
“I was barred from the US for life - it was said that it could have been much worse.”
fsiefken, HN commenter describing a personal border search · hn ↗2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Federal appeals courtU.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal agency conducting border searchesTrump administration Executive branch overseeing border enforcement
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This happened to me last month in Halifax Canada, I wanted to board a transfer flight to Amsterdam, going through Boston. I was stopped as I had salts with me from a buddhist relic I couldn't exactly identify. The machine said it contained a primary explosive (silver azide). I was ordered to give my access code to my iphone and 3 suspicious…
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So the main argument is that in the time that was written and immediately afterwards we can look to see what they mean by that by how it was implemented. At the time it was understood that the government could and would search goods as they enter the country without warrants to enforce things like tariffs. I think that's a fairly reasonable…
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This is confusing; what happens to you if you refuse a warantless search of your property?I'm a US citizen returning home. Do they just... send me back out of the country? :) I don't suppose they'd have the grounds to arrest me since there is no law that I can see being broken. I suppose they could keep the device until such time that a warrant…
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Anyone still crossing US borders with electronic devices that aren't fully wiped? This is company policy for some European companies for a long time. Even during the Biden administration.Most employees just receive a wiped phone/laptop for the duration of the trip. Depending on the country its either a device that only has access to the bare…
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It's a massive swing and a miss that GrapheneOS has a religious opposition to a VeraCrypt-style hidden volume arrangement that allows different passwords to unlock different OS volumes.It would be vastly superior to their current solution, which basically guarantees contempt charges.I hope they change their mind soon!
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Yeah the plain language is unambiguous. That there is an historical border search exception simply doesn't matter to me. We fought a war for this, and it's bullshit.
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