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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by bonestamp2 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @06:18PM (#36131760)
What does shutting it off do? As far as I understand, they can still require a search. I had it happen once when entering Canada, they said if I didn't consent to the search they would confiscate my laptop. I let them search it, and obviously they didn't find anything incriminating, but it felt so violating watching them go through all my personal photos.
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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by dylan604 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @06:45PM (#36132134)
full disk encryption keys are not in memory yet
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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by notfed on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @06:58PM (#36132274)
Does this mean they asked you to unlock it / decrypt it?
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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by bonestamp2 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:30PM (#36141085)
Yes. If I did not comply they would take the laptop and I would have to get a lawyer to try to get it back.
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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by AHOHA on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:32PM (#36133073)
Be thankful they did not take a copy of your hdd for forensics later.
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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by dylan604 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @10:35PM (#36133834)
Maybe they did. Maybe the "search" is just covering the time it takes to run their cloning program. Let that fester ;-)
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Re:Federal Judge Makes History: Border Searches of Cell Phon... by bonestamp2 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:47PM (#36141271)
No. They did it in front of me and all they did was run a search for JPG and PNG images. Then they went through all of the pictures. They did not attach any hardware/cables to the computer and they did not connect it to a network.

That said, this was years ago. I have heard that they do try to clone the drive now.

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