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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by jessaustin on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:24PM (#18114757)
If it works, customs officers cannot find actual illegal contents, and criminals walk free through customs.

"Illegal contents", as in what? Unflattering cartoons of the president? A spreadsheet marked "cocaine delivery schedule"? Why is this on the alleged criminal's phone while she's crossing the border? Has she never heard of the internet? No real criminal could be caught by any of this buffoonery. Lots of normal people whom the state would like to harass will be harassed, while wasting a great deal of money, which is the point.

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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by reaperducer on Monday October 01, 2018 @01:41PM (#18114947)
Unflattering cartoons of the president?

In Thailand, both tourists and locals can be severely punished for making fun of the King.

(I'd Google some links, but I'm on a dialup-speed cellular connection right now. It shouldn't be hard to find, though.)

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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by gwright on Monday October 01, 2018 @06:43PM (#18117431)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/turkish-president-app...

Just another example of the different way in which speech/information is treated in different countries.

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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by mito88 on Monday October 01, 2018 @06:03PM (#18117208)
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/suspected_dark_web_...

one big strong and noisy facepalm...

:)

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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by jessaustin on Monday October 01, 2018 @06:23PM (#18117326)
Haha yeah Beard Man should have left his laptop at home. Still, they must have been pretty confident in the evidence they already had when they issued that arrest warrant.
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Re:New Zealand travellers refusing digital search now face $... by angry_octet on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:07AM (#18130914)
Real criminals are caught by this all the time. A lot of these guys are scaping the bottom of the IQ barrel.

But a lot of the agents will have MAGA hats in their car, so I probably wouldn't have unflattering Trump cartoons on my phone. Though I would love it if EVERYONE had 'fuck trump' as their phone background.

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