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The travel-only Gmail account: A practical proposal for digital privacy at the US border
xkcd’s well-circulated wrench scenario, pictured above, is demonstrated hauntingly well by this week’s story of Sidd Bikkannavar, a US-born NASA engineer who was coerced into breaching the security of his government-issued phone in order to enter the United States. US Customs and Border Patrol detained Bikkannavar, who like me has Global Entry, upon entering and demanded he unlock his cell phone for searching. About 30 minutes later, he got his phone back and was free to go. He’s still unaware what took place during that time.
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It's a bit disturbing to be reading these things. This is the sort of strategy you'd expect to use if you lived in an authoritarian country with no civil liberties, not in the... Oh, nevermind.
Jokes aside, just think how far we've gone. How many more liberties do we give up to "protect" ourselves from the "evil terrorists"?
Whatever they tell you to give up. That's how things work now. Just keep in mind as you put on your registered LoJack, it's for your own good.
All of them I suspect.