New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $5k Customs fine

Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by swarnie_ on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:24AM (#18113454)

Find me a member of the TSA who can explain the significance of that sentence let alone catch it in practice then we can discus the viability of it.

It seems to me this would fix the larger problem most the time.

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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by gruez on Monday October 01, 2018 @11:51AM (#18113814)

as someone else mentioned, the only reason it works now is that very few people does this. if this starts getting popular, i guarentee that TSA is going to check for hidden partitions, patched kernels, suspiciously clean OS, etc.

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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by hfdgiutdryg on Monday October 01, 2018 @02:50PM (#18115644)

i guarentee that TSA is going to check for hidden partitions, patched kernels, suspiciously clean OS, etc.

How would they hire enough manpower smart enough to do that?

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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by bigiain on Monday October 01, 2018 @10:18PM (#18118346)

They'll just buy an eyewateringly expensive tool from Cellebrite (or their ilk), then let the minimum wage goons loose with it...

"Hey Hank, the machine says we've got another hidden encrypted partition, go get the rubber hose..."

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