Like we've asked before, could you please start commenting in the spirit of this site, which is to gratify our intellectual curiosity? Gratuitous inflammation doesn't belong and will get your account banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Since you are here already, maybe I know why is the author of this comment not given warning or ban for personal attacks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18112863

We don't see nearly all comments, even if we post in a thread. If you notice such things the best thing to do is email us at [email protected] so we'll be sure to see it.

"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." - some U.S. citizen. (MLK, Jr.)

> If you pull this stunt in the USA, I hope you enjoy your five-year sentence in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison and the effect that the permanent felony conviction on your record will have on your employment prospects and the exercise of your civil rights. Misleading, or concealing information from, a federal agent is a felony.

If this is the line of the argument, then why is the search done at all? I am perfectly fine telling an agent of the state "No sir, I do not have any illegal data on this device" - fully knowing that a lie is conducive to imprisonment. What I object to is the search itself, which by the way, is unlawful under the US constitution.

you say nothing to that agent. not a word. you give them your password if the insist and that's it.