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So really, "Apple employee gets mildly harassed at airport because of proprietary confidentially agreements" with "A terrible, terrible tragedy, non US-citizen travellers agree" as a byline. The main thing of interest here would be that maybe Mozilla should employ better hiring practices.
As you phrased your comment, it is entirely opaque to me what you intend to convey.
This assumes that he was not picked by random but instead there is some sort of list of people to check at airports that you can be put on because of your work within IT-security. That would be a big story if that is the case. I will offer a counter-narrative which is more in line with my own experience (from other places than the US): The people who work at border control in particular in airports are bored. They ar…
I will definitely agree bored cops looking for stuff to do cause a lot of problems.
The message it sends to me is, never visit America. I appreciate horrible things likely happen in my own country, but this is just disgusting.
The risk of travelling there is simply too high now.
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Keep data off your devices during travel, and download it once you're safe. If corporate, require external activation by someone from the company before the contents of your device are restored. That way you cannot be forced to divulge any company trade secrets, because you simply don't have access to them while you're crossing the border.
Some companies issue "China" Laptops to their executives that they must discard after visiting China. Now I believe we all need throw away laptops and cell phones and Facebook accounts for any sort of international travel.
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I would worry the resources of the US government may extend to spare batteries
Forcing you to unlock a laptop or phone that doesnt have a battery would fall under a different legal precedent.
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> They can hold your stuff indefinitely, so be prepared to lose it if you go this route CBP do need reasonable suspicion to hold you belongings or do a forensic search of your computer (Cotterman 2013) - they can't just randomly take things on a whim. The longer they hold it, the higher standard required.
Does refusing to unlock your devices trigger a reasonable suspicion? (In Cotterman , it sounds like the Ninth Circuit said reasonable suspicion was required, but also decided on its own - despite it not being argued by the government - that an alert from a CBP database about Cotterman's previous conviction justified a search. Which seems reasonable to me, as a layperson, I thin.)
Quick reminder: US citizens have an absolute right to reenter the country. Customs can temporarily detain you, but they cannot refuse entry. Any threat, whether implied or stated, that they will hold you until you unlock your device is not real. They can hold your stuff indefinitely, so be prepared to lose it if you go this route, but never unlock your device based on the idea that it’s the only way to go free. Non-c…
Except the threat to put you on a "mess up with every time they fly" list.
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Alternatively, prefer to avoid bringing your own devices with you when you fly. Leave your laptop and smartphone at home, and rent temporary ones after you cross.
How do you find a rented laptop trustworthy?
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> America is awesome, I appreciate and know how lucky we are to be here. In which regard? Compared to which place?
We lead the world in R&D, we aren't in a surveillance state like China (~1.3B people), we aren't undeveloped, we have the US dollar - the commanding world currency. We develop the best military technology, space technology, most all technology. We issue the most patents, by far. We (as people) have more rights than most all other nations and we led many other rights to attain rights for their own citizens. We protect…