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Re:Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras by Eridrus on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:03AM (#13176404)
This was my instinctive reaction too, but I don't think it's true. Confiscating equipment is not in the same realm as indefinite detention.

US border control will certainly look at unencrypted equipment, but are unlikely to detain a citizen. I think the same goes for other countries who don't want to get into a diplomatic spat with the US.

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Re:Filmmakers Ask Nikon and Canon to Sell Encrypted Cameras by jfindley on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @10:37AM (#13176718)
See reply from lb1lf below. The world is not as tightly constrained by rules as you seem to think - a truck full of heavily armed militia in the middle of a civil war are not going to give a damn what the US' diplomatic policies might or might not be.
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