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Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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What I find more egregious is, if this somehow sticks, non-USA citizens are still not protected from these invasive searches. This should be a human rights issue, not a local law.

Non-citizens don't have a right to cross the border.

Visa holders?

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Use the most obscure fork of Android possible, learn the most obscure language in Africa and set your UI to that language, ...

Aaaaand with the bootloader unlocked, they'll just grab the Cellebrite and/or call up Cellebrite Professional Services for remote unlock assistance. https://cellebrite.com/en/advanced-services/ The biggest thing is to set your device up on arrival to be powered OFF. Most of Cellebrite (and other security vendors) solutions rely on the phone having been unlocked once since first poweron (or "AFU").

Cellebrite has an extra column for GrapheneOS, as they seemingly can't unlock it (since ~2 years), compared to all other Android OEM Flavours.

And with GrapheneOS you can relock the bootloader, once you've installed it.

Source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41072905

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/14344-cellebrite-premium-ju...

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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What I find more egregious is, if this somehow sticks, non-USA citizens are still not protected from these invasive searches. This should be a human rights issue, not a local law.

Non-citizens don't have a right to cross the border.

If they have a visa, of course they have the right.

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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post #124

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remove English from the OS

People that travel to the US usually want to actually get into the US. Why would they make it hard on themself?

People want to get into the US without having their personal thoughts searched. US citizens also have the right to enter the US without personal thoughts searched.

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Non-citizens don't have a right to cross the border.

If they have a visa, of course they have the right.

In the US visa does not give you right to enter. It gives you the right to show up in front of the CBP officer [1].

Edit: add source 1. https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/visa-waive...

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Imagine if it were actually one of your social media handles , though [what I wrote above]. Just as example, I'm one of those weirdos with the vehicle tag "No Plate" — never received anything but laughs from police officers.

You should change your license plate to ' OR 1=1; DROP TABLE licenses; --

    null void
I asked a friendly metermaid to "see if your plate scanner can decipher my plate" and it failed. The few paper parking citations I've had placed upon my vehicle also always seem to trace back nowhere...

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Not OP but almost all of Europe comes to mind.

A continent where laws capable of sending you to prison for freely expressing certain opinions is your counter example to a lack of certain advanced individual rights in the U.S.

Reminder that most of Europe ranks higher in the US' own freedom index than the US does

https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores?sort...

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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What I find more egregious is, if this somehow sticks, non-USA citizens are still not protected from these invasive searches. This should be a human rights issue, not a local law.

Non-citizens don't have a right to cross the border.

Of course not but they should still be protected when they seek permission to do so. Perhaps more countries need to enact symmetrical immigration rules where US citizens are subject to the same bs that the US subjects their citizens to. Then again, US citizens seem to be unbothered by the five eyes arrangement where the US cannot spy on their own citizens but they can politely ask their allies to do so so maybe this wouldn't get them to see the problem. Still would be fair though.

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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Oddly enough, there are screen-sharing and/or remote-display protocols which ... are limited to sharing screen-drawing properties and aren't wholesale data vacuums. X11 and remote desktop come particularly to mind. Several of those can be limited to specific applications, e.g., by setting the $DISPLAY value (X11). For remote desktop that's a bit more challenging but can be managed to an extent using Group Policy sett…

It is not screen sharing… It is more like plugging a monitor on a laptop. It’s exactly how the phone does it under the hood: it’s a secondary display.

Thanks.

Re: Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

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I've crossed the border hundreds of times and no one has ever asked me for my social media accounts.

It’s a question on the DS-160, IIRC.

Also a question on the ESTA application.
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