Re:1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing bo...
by sneak on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:03PM
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The fifth amendment does not go away suddenly at the border (4A notwithstanding).
If exercising my human rights is "a ticket to a back room for hours", then something is fundamentally broken in our society. You should try it; without doing so you actually have no data about the practical perimeter of your basic rights. This stuff isn't printed in the newspaper.
Yes, I really never answered their questions, except the ones about citizenship and nationality and place of birth—which I answered by presenting my passport.
"Business or pleasure?" is a vague, leading question designed to get you to volunteer as much information as possible. Sometimes I replied "no" or "yes" to that one, with an occasional "On advice of my attorney I decline to answer questions from police except in writing and via counsel" thrown in to break up the monotony.
If exercising my human rights is "a ticket to a back room for hours", then something is fundamentally broken in our society. You should try it; without doing so you actually have no data about the practical perimeter of your basic rights. This stuff isn't printed in the newspaper.
Yes, I really never answered their questions, except the ones about citizenship and nationality and place of birth—which I answered by presenting my passport.
"Business or pleasure?" is a vague, leading question designed to get you to volunteer as much information as possible. Sometimes I replied "no" or "yes" to that one, with an occasional "On advice of my attorney I decline to answer questions from police except in writing and via counsel" thrown in to break up the monotony.
Never talk to the police.