Re:Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock...
by bonestamp2 on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:06AM
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> let them nose through your happy snaps for a minute on the way through.
Just so you know, that's not how it has worked since 2013. Now they take your phone to the back room and image your phone. Then they upload that image to a service that searches your data. Then, and there is recent evidence of this, they don't always destroy the local copy of your data in the field office which would allow agents to browse your data at any time. Remember, they require you to unlock (decrypt) your phone before doing this.
Re:Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock...
by tempestn on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:16AM
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I hate this idea. To the best of my knowledge there's no evidence of anything illegal on my phone or any of my social media accounts. But still, I would absolutely loathe the idea of handing over an image of my phone in perpetuity. Might as well give you a scan of the contents of my brain. Not much evidence of law-breaking there either, but I'd rather hold onto it, thank you!
I guess the real (rhetorical) question is, are you doing this for the principle of the thing or because you have something illegal? If the latter, then the only foolproof way is to travel without a phone, purchase a burner when you get wherever you're going, then destroy it when you leave - it's cheap enough these days to do so for every trip.
If the former, then (as much as I hate this) just accept that it's all theatre and nobody really cares what's on your phone, and just unlock it and let them nose through your happy snaps for a minute on the way through.