You can also take an empty laptop from home with you on the trip, where only the operating system is on plus a browser, if you don’t want to buy a throw-away one.

It’s a short step from there to, “If you don’t have anything illegal on your phone, you won’t mind if we inspect it.”

And just one more short step to, “We have inspected your phone and discovered shocking images of child pornography. You’re going to jail for a long time.” Because, once the authorities have access to your electronics, it’s as easy to plant illegal material as it is to discover illegal material.

I’m not defending Marcos Mendez. I’m just pointing out that any one of us could find himself/herself accused of a similar crime if/when it were politically convenient. Someone like Mr. Kiriakou should be especially careful, as he is already a political target. But it could happen to anyone.

Nor does mine

Access to your doctor, psychologist, attorney, pastor, co-workers, librarian, and grocer? Great!!! Let’s find out about your dissenter contacts, the suspicious books you read, and that weird foreign food you eat. You anti-American you.

All that blather about murky, hypothetical ‘rights’ when our security is at stake. By “our” of course we mean keeping the powerful and important protected. You lessers need only defer and obey. After all, if you’re not guilty of wrongdoing, how could you possibly object to constant monitoring?

I was pulled out of the boarding line for a physical search twice for flights on a business trip. I was traveling with two older white males who were not singled out. I
assume I was chosen so TSA could deny any racial or ethnic profiling. But annoying and intimidating none the less.

If you chose, you could then download the usual browser, after having passed through immigration, and reload your regular content.

On your return, couldn’t you take steps, such as clearing the browser history, and deleting that browser entirely from your new phone before getting to the immigration procedures? Depending on the cost of the new phone, you could even sell it, gift it, or throw it away, in the other country. Your old phone should be where you left it, with everything still on it, in a place where a warrant would be required to seize it.

Just asking.

Al Capone seconds this motion!

Way too funny if it wasn’t so sad.

“Off subject a trend I have been noticing is that any browser doesn’t auto refresh CN pages, when I come to visit ”

Hmmm…?
nefarious I presume /?