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Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

No Warrant Needed: Border Agents in NY, CT, and VT Can Now Search Your Phone

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No Warrant Needed: Border Agents in NY, CT, and VT Can Now Search Your Phone

www.gadgetreview.com

Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Border agents at JFK can now search your phone without a warrant or suspicion, following a 2026 Second Circuit ruling that affects all travelers.
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    Looks like it’s time to carry a dummy phone with you if you decide to visit the US. Not really sure why any non-citizens would want to do that at this point though.

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      The decision includes citizens, anyone within 100 miles from an international airport, border, or national waterway.

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      if you decide to visit the US.

      There is a lot more reasons not to do that than there are reasons to go there.

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      I’m not even sure why would they even need to see your phone.
      All these idiots use cloud, just requesting data from iOS/google is sufficient in most cases. I think they don’t even have to ask, they gotta have direct api access.

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      Interestingly, iOS 27 has a new “2 phones can share 1 number and you can swap between them” which didn’t seem to make a lot of sense.

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        it makes sense in the backdoor sense. esims. so now uncle sam can “be” that 2nd phone.

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          Uncle Sam could always be that 2nd phone, the network is ridiculously insecure. It’s so well-known, the spooks didn’t even stop Veritasium from making a video on it. Hell, it doesn’t take a state-level actor either, it takes a motivated individual and that’s pretty much all.

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        What in the what now? Just between apple phones or with android or other OS? Guess I hafta go read…

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          Haven’t actually tried it but T-Mobile digits supposedly let’s you do what you seek.

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            New to me, thanks!

            https://www.t-mobile.com/business/solutions/digits

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          https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/iphone-handoff-one-number-two-phones/

          But The Apple documentation (https://support.apple.com/en-us/127274) mentions that your iCloud gets synced between both devices, so now I’m confused what the purpose of this is

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            It’s so you can buy more phones

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            Dang, I had other ideas!

            What you need:

            Two devices running iOS 27 or later that are: Connected to Wi-Fi Sharing the same Apple Account Using Messages in iCloud to ensure messages sync Signed into FaceTime and iMessage with the same Apple Account An eSIM from a carrier that supports iPhone Handoff: USA: T-Mobile Germany: Telekom

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