Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year

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I read the article on "The Signal Chats That Cost OpenAI Researchers Their Jobs" [0] and the (former) employees were asked for their phone password. Accessing Signal, OpenAI discovered (the absence of) disappearing messages to an external researcher. So, if an application is password protected either by the OS or another app which demands a password to launch another app, would the official just ask for the application's launch password, or is that beyond whatever overly generous powers granted to them? Perhaps this is rhetorical, because what we called laws are merely ignored these days. Laws for which there is no charge, no prosecution, and no consequence (I can give 34 examples) are merely suggestions. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50210481