The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border

ChrisArchitect

Title is: A Feature That Makes Your Phone Data Self-Destruct in Authorities’ Hands May Soon Have Its Day in Court And it's 3 day old news [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024436

benoau

Fascinating case and arms-race, seems like part of the issue is the bricking is too obvious...

DivingForGold

"If you’re a fan of privacy in our age of creeping digital authoritarianism, there’s one famously effective way to pass through U.S. Customs at an airport without worrying about a device search: travel with a burner phone only." What about setting your phone from the get go to store all data on the micro sim card ? Then, when traveling through airports, swap out for another micro sim that has some small, useless data on it, fake contact list, etc. ? Real sim card is so small can be hidden in a million places.

throwuxiytayq

Disgusting. I’ve never had to let anyone touch my phone in my entire life in any country I’ve visited. Is there a list of countries that does this? At this point it’s obvious I won’t ever be traveling to the US, but I’m curious if genuinely authoritarian countries like China are actually less of a police state at the border than the USA.

anon291

When this hits the supreme Court they need to debar the prosecutors who bring these cases to begin with.