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There are a growing number of reports of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) searching the electronic devices of passengers on domestic flights in the US, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has sued the federal agency for records.

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California filed a lawsuit against the TSA on Monday demanding that the government disclose its policies for searching the computers and cellphones of domestic travelers, arguing that anecdotal accounts have raised concerns about potential privacy invasions...

One woman who shared her story with the ACLU told the Guardian that in the last year, she had twice had her electronics searched while flying within California. The 64-year-old, who works in the not-for-profit sector and requested anonymity for fear that she could face further scrutiny from TSA, said that on one occasion last year, TSA agents pulled her aside to pat her down multiple times and eventually asked to see both her iPhones – a work and personal one.

The agents did not ask her to unlock the phones, but took them for at least 10 minutes out of her view, she said, adding that she quickly became distraught.

“I no longer had my phones, so there was no one I could contact,” she said, adding, “It just feels like an invasion of privacy, especially when they are not telling you what the problem is.”

The woman said on a recent trip, the TSA also briefly took her laptop, which was password protected... The ACLU said it had received no response to its public records requests sent in December 2017, forcing the group to file the lawsuit, which is seeking fairly basic policy documents.

a bone to pick posted:

Imagine instantly feeling helpless when you're out of reach of your cell phone, how loving doomed are future generations?

Rutibex posted:

this is why my phone has a normal unlock code and an unlock code that wipes the memory. what an OP sec newb

Colonel Cancer posted:

All smartphones and laptops are basically IEDs due to lithium ion batteries and shouldn't be allowed on the plane.

Caganer posted:

yeah but now only the bad guys have IEDs. the only thing that can stop a bad guy with an IED is a good guy with an IED

Caganer posted:

if a device goes out of your eyesight you have to assume it's been owned (implant installed)

Colonel Cancer posted:

I bet 9/11 wouldn't have happened if passengers just threw their Nokias at bad guys.

a bone to pick posted:

Imagine instantly feeling helpless when you're out of reach of your cell phone, how loving doomed are future generations?

Volcott posted:

I've never had the opportunity to say "get a warrant buttfucker" and at this point I'm worried I've missed my chance.

Caganer posted:

if a device goes out of your eyesight you have to assume it's been owned (implant installed)

so now NGO workers need burner laptops / phones for internal travel.

and it's blatantly illegal, which is unnerving.

Caganer posted:

Unfortunately Mark Wahlberg missed his flight

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/01/mark-wahlberg-thinks-he-could-have-stopped-911.html

Egbert Souse posted:

I fly a lot for work and have occasionally had my backpack searched. No big deal. I just wait at the search station, the agent brings it in front of me, and asks for permission to search it.

Once at Palm Beach Intl. an agent took my backpack off the conveyor before going through the x-ray machine and started rummaging through it, then put it through the conveyer with me standing right there like it was nothing. Nothing was missing, at least, but I would have put in a complaint if it wouldn't probably put me on some shitlist.

SCROTO TURBOSPERG posted:

Someone provide a hot take, i cannot read

Colonel Cancer posted:

Lmao this is the most internet tough guy thing I've read recently. loving actors.

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Update: Wahlberg has issued an apology:
“To speculate about such a situation is ridiculous to begin with, and to suggest I would have done anything differently than the passengers on that plane was irresponsible. I deeply apologize to the families of the victims that my answer came off as insensitive, it was certainly not my intention.”

Rutibex posted:

this is why my phone has a normal unlock code and an unlock code that wipes the memory. what an OP sec newb

Dmitri-9 posted:

They can just clone your hard drive and do whatever NSA chicanery they did on the San Bernardino shooters phone.

Egbert Souse posted:

FYI, anyone who travels even moderately should do TSA Precheck.

I usually just sail through security and get to keep my belt, shoes, and watch on.

Skeleton Ape posted:

Hmmmm a 5 digit numeric password, you'd need some kind of supercomputer running for 1000 years to brute force that

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

Caganer posted:

calm down chuck. all they can do is make a bunch of images to get around the "10 tries then it wipes" limit. from there it's all brute force. if you have a good password they're hosed

Caganer posted:

try a 10+ character mnemonic with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols




don't dox me.

Skeleton Ape posted:

Hmmmm a 5 digit numeric password, you'd need some kind of supercomputer running for 1000 years to brute force that

Rutibex posted:

just make an image of your phone memory and upload it to some cloud service. travel with no SIM card (buy a new one where your going) and have the phone in factory reset state. you can restore it once you arrive.

Colonel Cancer posted:

I really don't think NSA relies on brute force approach to most common encryption methods. There are likely backdoors to some, and tricks to others. Most people don't bother with super complicated passwords so basic rainbow tables might even do the trick.

Then again, most people don't password protect poo poo either so

Caganer posted:

put my files in the CLOUD? are you insane? have you heard of prism?

all my backups go to usbs i control, or into a veracrypt volume and THAT goes into the cloud

Rutibex posted:

there is to much data on the cloud for them to look at it all. you only need to worry about PRISM if you are on the list. if you suspect you're on the list you shouldn't be traveling by plane anyway, and you should own no electronics made after 1998