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I never really understood the reason for seizing an electronic device anyway. Surely if something was important / secret enough it wouldn't be _on_ the phone. What are they looking for, exactly?
> What are they looking for, exactly? Probably anything incriminating. Human nature is laziness so if the guy was a baddie then there's a high chance something could be on the devices.
I never really understood the reason for seizing an electronic device anyway. Surely if something was important / secret enough it wouldn't be _on_ the phone. What are they looking for, exactly?
Most criminals don’t actually have great OpSec. I’m sure there are tons of phones that have incriminating photographs in the default camera app, or incriminating text messages or saved voicemails or who knows what.
> Officers uncovered a customs-related offence during 38 per cent of those searches, said the agency. I really want to understand what kind of digital data is considered a customs-related offence.
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Do you think its better to have an iPhone powered down or on? I am wondering if it would be possible to leverage remote wipe features, but maybe the border agents power off the device or put it in a bag / container that blocks cellular signals.
Shouldn’t matter. The key thing is to have a strong password, and disable any biometric authentication beforehand. (You can do this by squeezing the side buttons for a few seconds until the “power off” screen appears. The phone will then require a password before reenabling biometric authentication.)
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Do you think its better to have an iPhone powered down or on? I am wondering if it would be possible to leverage remote wipe features, but maybe the border agents power off the device or put it in a bag / container that blocks cellular signals.
Shouldn’t matter. The key thing is to have a strong password, and disable any biometric authentication beforehand. (You can do this by squeezing the side buttons for a few seconds until the “power off” screen appears. The phone will then require a password before reenabling biometric authentication.)
> Officers uncovered a customs-related offence during 38 per cent of those searches, said the agency. This is hard for me to comprehend. Does anyone have an idea of what 38% of the phones can have stored on them, that is illegal to have when crossing the border?
>Wright refused, telling the officer both devices contained confidential information protected by solicitor-client privilege. >He said the officer then confiscated his phone and laptop, and told him the items would be sent to a government lab which would try to crack his passwords and search his files. Can this be used to get whatever case(es) he was defending thrown out because solicitor-client privilege was violate…
> He said the officer then confiscated his phone and laptop, and told him the items would be sent to a government lab which would try to crack his passwords and search his files. Hopefully they were powered down and used proper full-disk encryption.
Do you think its better to have an iPhone powered down or on? I am wondering if it would be possible to leverage remote wipe features, but maybe the border agents power off the device or put it in a bag / container that blocks cellular signals.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What are they looking for, exactly? Probably anything incriminating. Human nature is laziness so if the guy was a baddie then there's a high chance something could be on the devices.
Most violators of the law are not "baddies", unless you believe most people are "baddies"