[Cryptography] detention and/or seizure if you don't give your passphrase to US CBP
Ray Dillinger
bear at sonic.net
Wed Feb 15 14:57:29 EST 2017
> This leads to some hypothetical but entirely plausible situations
> with considerable downside potential:
>
> 1) Suppose your battery dies while you're on a day trip to
> Tijuana. Your device gets seized.
>
> 2) Suppose you are on vacation. You give your phone and laptop
> to your family to take home while you go on ahead, or stay
> behind. Your spouse and children miss their flight while
> CBP tries to extract the passphrase from them. Then the
> devices get seized.
>
> 3) Suppose your devices contains random numbers that you
> cannot possibly decode, such as are attached below. You
> miss your flight, and your devices get seized.
4) Suppose you mail your device home (or ship it) before going to the
airport.
5) Suppose you buy a simple 'dumb' cell phone and don't program it with
any contact numbers.
Bear
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