What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?

Re:What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at t... by tptacek on Thursday February 16, 2017 @04:45PM (#13663807)

Hold on, once again, because you're oversimplifying the situation here. You might be comfortable being turned back at the US border, but there are plenty of people who aren't in that situation --- they're children, or are coming to take care of their children, &c --- and being turned back at the border can mean it's very difficult to return to the country under any circumstances for years afterwards.

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Re:What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at t... by zeveb on Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:57PM (#13664764)

I think you're looking for an argument, but I'm not. It's always been possible for a country to turn a visitor away (talk to folks who've been to Israel and try to travel to an Arab country …), and that does have consequences which one must be prepared for.

I'm certainly not going to claim that 'all your password are belong to us!' is a good or desirable policy, but I am going to claim that anyone who travels between countries must be prepared to deal with the local regime, no matter how ill-conceived its rules may be.

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Re:What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at t... by caf on Thursday February 16, 2017 @10:03PM (#13665607)

One of the pieces of important advice I am planning on passing on to my children is: Never have children with someone who has citizenship of a country that you don't.

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