Argentina tried a few ideas like that in the 1980's knowing the skills the UK's GCHQ had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Argentina needed a lot of fast, real time communications using equipment that was in place.
The GCHQ has most of the worlds mil grade export crypto decryption computer ready thanks to most brands and firms been happy to help the UK gov. Real time decryption was easy and any efforts to link two layers of junk export grade crypto was detected and useless.
The only aspect that slowed the GCHQ down was that Argentina had some South Africa crypto devices that the GCHQ did not know a lot about. That took an unexpected 24h to break given early 1980s' UK computers facing a new mil crypto task.
All communications was then plaint text in real time.
Other nations then equip their mil with that junk and think they have the best the private sector has to offer:)
So that is not really what your asking about, but shows how governments attack crypto. Govs go to the origins of "export" "brands" that sell mil grade crypto and get the keys. Consumer crypto efforts get the same police or international telco requests for keys. Most govs just ask the designers within their nations to help.
That consumer grade, police friendly product is then a tested, trusted global crypto standard.
Almost all crypto for sale was junk.
South Africa during the 1980's was one of the few nations to have working crypto that was not shared with the US, UK, Soviet Union as designed.
Thats why so many nations allow things like VPN. The home router been used for all networking that can hide everything? No calls for VPN bans or to stop CC payments for all consumer VPN services?
Governments might have found another easy way in and all a VPN service cert will do is make a gov tracking easy. Use a VPN, the users must be interesting, crypto funding and gov computer time was not an issue.
Any gov will have a passport photo. Travel without a phone, laptop and get asked, about social media?
As a citizen a person can invoke their nations laws, ask for a lawyer, articulate legal protections during the friendly chat down.
Federal, state, city, public/private partnership, charity, NGO efforts to collect and index all social media over the years will then get a facial recognition request.
Past hours, days, weeks, months could be recovered and presented during a chat down or held back to see how a person responds.
Facial recognition is fast so the interview will seem normal, with a short break, change of interview rooms, different staff needed, shift change.
All cover to sort what was found. Or wonder why nothing useful has been found...
If nothing is found is the person in a cult or member of some faith group? Often used as spies as they have no normal online past?
A citizen might walk free hours later but how interested are local/federal officials in that person now?
If a person is not a citizen, one lie and the paperwork is different. A flight back to their own nation.
AC any use of encryption or a different OS mode, encrypted file system can be detected.
With the US gov paying, that software is easy to buy and fast to scan any device for can encryption or hidden accounts or a mode setting.
The encryption will hold but the use of such efforts will be found.
If your a citizen the question will be what files are been hidden? Decrypt and its all good...
The use of a flight mode will then be a chat down about hiding digital photos using cryptography.
Still feel the need to hide the photos? Is it the gps and the location in an interesting nation? An interesting person is in one of the images? How many photos are been hidden in that device using that "travel" mode?
Need a lawyer? Time to talk to US law enforcement to start an investigation in the US? The US legal system is ready 24/7 with the needed paperwork.
Send the device for more detailed examination to find what image files are been hidden?
The US citizen walks free, the device is returned days, weeks later.
Was an investigation opened? Home computer? ISP logs?
What do the ISP logs show? A lot of https searching for hours? Finally some http...
If not a US citizen, thats a few lies, time to return to your own nation again.
US gov, federal police, city, state, public/private partnerships, private groups will have collected everything in real time over the years.
A face that finds past use with facial recognition would re build any past social media use.
Politics, parties, friends of friends, funding, support, groups, leaders, other nations, work, holidays.
All a more secure mode hints at is a person knows they will be questioned and tried to quickly hide their digital pasts.
If they are a citizen, expect questions and every device to be searched, cloned, copied, any deleted files on a camera card recovered, any encrypted files systems detected. A few different request for a password.
So a citizen will get to walk out after a few hours of repeated questions, requests for a password, but their need to hide would have been added to a few databases. Any interesting devices will be examined, returned over days or weeks.
What did that person do? Why is that person interesting? Images/gps from another nation they visited while on holiday but had no paperwork for? Why hide the account?
Not a citizen? The interviews go on until the first lie. Deport.
Its fine not to have email, social media, just a phone. But if a person is wanting to enter another nation, expect most online activity to have been found.
A photo will have some use for facial recognition. Friends will be found, friends of friends.
Party? Conference photo? Work? Hobby? A person who shows up in a very interesting nation? Friends of friends online?
A person might not have social media but everyone at their work might:)
Who are they friends with? Who or what do people ate work or friends support on social media?
If you are entering on a visa, the application will often have an email option to track the approval or ask for more supporting documents.
That account will then be requested if no social media exists.
Most nations are interested in the faces on social media, connections to other interesting people, groups.
Politics, support, funding of groups. Military background? Political party that funds interesting groups?
People often have such information all over their friends social media.
Yes AC and to get that "residence requirement" you have to be working or a person has to show they are doing something good in Switzerland while getting the years of needed residence...
Re "if we have to fiddle with changing cards every 10 minutes?"
Buy a pro video camera with a 1TB hard drive or consider a consumer product with h264 or 265 support.
"There was never a catastrophe in Switzerland, but their living standard is one of the highest in the world."
Switzerland looks after its own internally and does not let many random people just wonder in and become Swiss.
People can find a job or are supported if a person cant get work or will never work at the very local, canton level. No fraud, no cheating i.e. no illegals can hide in a vast federal system. Any gov support payments are kept at a normal rate per normal population size. Work is encouraged and rewarded. Nice car, nice house, holidays, or own business. Education gets people ready for work. Some military service then ensures every generation knows how to work together and what their nation has to offer. A few days in the mud, cold, in the back of a truck, up a mountain, been in a bunker gets different people talking and helps build a nation.
The ranks of the unemployable are not allowed to rise every generation by inviting lots of unemployable people in.
The medical profession globally is protected to ensure only the best in any nation can work on a citizen in need of help.
Any medical expert on duty should be the best a nation can educate or have passed the same exams.
No wealthy citizen wants to wake up in their own nation and be told some "medical specialist from anywhere in the world" on duty did not have the skills needed to ensure a normal recovery. So most nations are very aware of who they allow to practice medicine. Only the best get to pass tests and practice.
If a nation wants to save its citizens after a crash or in some emergency it can be very simple.
Have great ambulance crews with real skills and the national support they need. Allow helicopters, aircraft to fly in all weather, at night and bring back patients to only the very best hospitals. Most normal nations can fly helicopters at night in 2017 to get people to a fully equipped hospital.
Teams of the best doctors on duty selected only on merit then get to care for citizens. Not a citizen? Have that travel insurance ready.
No student, work or tourist visa without full cover medial insurance.
The same goes for education. Test the students and only support the very best. Ensure the best get to university.
The Soviet and Chinese experiments soon run of free cash and have to export their way back into hard currency.
China today is investing globally but its own people know of all the corruption, lack of free speech and pollution.
The confiscatory rate is going to get very interesting with EU/NATO nations. How to support vast numbers of people moving in illegally and expecting generations of free gov support. Housing, schools, medical, dental for millions of new people with no new tax rates?
Governments could take on more debt to cover welfare costs:) What happens when 20-40% of a growing population has no skills to work for generations?
Most of that has been tested in courts over the decades AC.
e.g. level of suspicion for canal drug smuggling.
The issue of any particular vehicle been covered by an administrative warrant so roving patrols could counter border smuggling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Recall Congress gave a lot of new power to search for terrorists over the past years. The need to uncover terrorist communications was also considered.
No US court or gov is going to allow sanctuary to terrorist material and has given the legal ability to search at a boarder.
No level of suspicion is needed. No person can block a search with demands for dignity or claim privacy interests.
Just as a bag is searched, a camera card for images, deleted images i.e. searches of property.
No ability to get into the US using laptops, CDs, MP3 players, cellular phones, and digital cameras with terrorist communications or any other material thats illegal in the USA.
If any person has sensitive business information, academic materials and did not expect a search?
They should have consider that and used a computer network or other ways of moving time sensitive data around.
Lots of nations will ask a lot of questions. The US can too thanks to powers granted by Congress.
Why do "travelers" now get to hide things in their laptops or on social networks when entering the USA?
Their support for, funding of and membership of different designated terrorist groups might just show on their social media account.
Images, faces, location... why is all that now given US legal cover to be hidden?
Why not give US CBP agents all the powers they need to search any device, ask for accounts, look at any images on entry to the USA?
If a person is using technical countermeasures, like ‘burner’ laptops and mobile devices? Find that out and ask why? Wait for the lie and then deport.
Re 'warrant before conducting any device searches"? That will slow the ability to search and allow lawyers to enter the search process.
If every search has to be slowed for a warrant, fewer people will be search. More interesting people will just slip into the USA.
Re "demand is likely to be mirrored by foreign governments, which will demand passwords from U.S. citizens"
If another nation wants to keep their nation safe, thats their legal system.
The other issue is the spread of past application questions on social media by alumni. Graduates globally are getting a lot of support in how to pass interviews.
What questions to expect and how to pass.
Always have new questions ready. Social media has allowed too many graduates to seek advice from people who have taken work related tests.
All Windows has now is Direct x 12 and GPU support.
Windows 10 allows games to be created with a lot of different graphics support.
Do developers select tools that let them code for Linux, Apple, Sony and the Windows desktop?
Is it the tools, developer kits? GPU support?
Good workers can work in an office, at home.
They can understand an issue and suggest how long it will take to work on a new or complex problem.
see The Mythical Man-Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
To find good staff word the requirements to exclude average and lazy staff.
Read their paper work, make sure it is correct.
Do interviews. Does the resume match the person? Can the person think about problems when asked?
Change up the questions so no interview is the same.
How much contact with computers did the person have over the years?
Computer hobbies? Did all their education provide access to different computer topics?
Don't hire the applicant who did not have access to new and expensive computers over the years.
Your not working out if a nice person wanted to be a vet, doctor, lawyer... ask about computers.
A smart person who can think and is articulate during the interview?
Academic results match the paper work presented?
Find good workers and spend time on projects. Your projects are not further education or a charity for very average workers.
Every day wasted on trying to make lazy, average workers happy is a day lost to competitors who had the skills to hire the best workers.
Always hire on merit. Ensure merit is the only consideration.
If you need to hire globally something went very wrong. Any advance nation should have given most of its best students access to computers and a good college education.
Why is that "world-class" person trying to find an international job? Failed in their own nation, failed to get into a top university globally and failed to get a real job from that global education. Having a language skill does not make up for been average.
An average "world-class" applicant is as useful as any average local applicant for the same wage.
If they are still looking for a job, they are not the best. Be aware of online groups, charities and people who help applicants with their paperwork, resumes.
Past interview experiences will be shared. Methods to be ready for complex interviews are offered or sold online.
Always interview and ask new questions.
Talk to a lot of good lawyers before hiring any new staff so the interviews can only result in the best workers been selected.
The only question will be knowing what a friend of a friend was doing on social media a few years ago.
How long have they been supporting... funding... helping...
Its like a smarter 1984 world let the people party for a decade just to track their interactions later.
Room 101 was always waiting.
How low level could that be? Does the telco or device OS hardware or software log an account has been swapped?
The US gov could just then have software to look into a device log for that setting and see it was changed mins or a hour ago.
The first and only lie needed would be about that phone.
Any encrypted material would be detected. US software used to scan devices would find any such use of encryption or altered file system.
The same with any camera card or laptop.
Most security staff for any larger US brand would be aware of what other nations do to any US device that enters their nation.
Hotel staff help look for any devices in a hotel room, wireless or physical access is attempted.
Most security would suggest entering another nation with a totally clean phone ready for that nations telco services.
Any VPN use, cloud or other long term per device settings are what any nations security services are looking for.
Re entering the US and having that device scanned will show any crypto, apps.. just like any other citizen re-entering the US with a digital device.
AC the US gov has the funds to buy software to detect any use of encryption.
Once found? Decrypt or lie?
If your not a US citizen the options are clear.
If you are a US citizen, expect parallel construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... if no questions got asked.
Most of that is the new chat down ideas that get sold by private groups to the US gov. Buy their expensive chat down system and all US staff/workers can then see if a person has something to hide. Great for the groups and brands selling such technology and constant further education to the US gov.
Such questions will flow on with car rental services, helpful airline staff after a flight, taxi, local hotel staff, currency, technology shops once just in the USA.
A lot of that is now online, digital, but if still possible some chat will be attempted.
The questions are in depth and part of a public/private partnership. CCTV is also kept for many months. Did a person need to hire a car, had local friends... who are the friends?
Pay cash, a CC? Go to a hotel? Drive or get driven deep into the USA but mentioned they needed a local hotel... ?
Every driver and passenger face, their license plate gets recorded driving in and out of the area. Very few big new roads make that simple:)
All staff in related shops, providing services will try the same chat down but have been told to hide it under a friendly cover that a tourist would expect as just been part of friendly service.
It is done to random people so no group in the USA can then claim they are been selected for extra questions.
Most interesting groups, faiths, cults, spies now understand such approaches and have prepared for all such approaches and chat downs.
As a US citizen a person would face the normal courts and legal protections after discovery of digital material, items that are illegal in the USA.
Returning to the USA a person cannot start lying, or block that discovery.
Congress and courts in the US are very clear on what can be asked, searched for and how a person is then moved into the court system.
i.e. a person does not get to enter the USA with anything illegal just by having a US passport and demanding a court needs to approve a bag search.
The bag is searched, every image on a digital camera is looked at, any images get recovered.
On discovery its US lawyer time and then time to face a US court. All rights are respected and apply.
Thats nice if a person is a citizen. If your not a citizen, a person will not get to hide things, i.e. a person is lying and will be removed.
Most nation have seen all that legal effort by citizens. Most nations ensure everything can be searched, questions asked. Images can be looked at, recovered. Bags searched, devices accessed.
Any expected questioned asked to anyone entering that are blocked, refused is lying. No protection is granted to lie.
If a person is not a citizen, they don't get cover to lie. If they are a citizen the questions and investigations have just started.
So have a phone. A new phone with a new account from back in your own nation thats account ready for your destination.
It powers on, has a list of apps. It can be called. So any security questions about devices will fit in with what is expected of most people in 2017.
A laptop should be new. Only have productivity apps.
A camera should have a new card/s in it. Do not use the card. Any images on it will be looked at. Any camera deleted images can and will be recovered.
For any paperwork use your work or normal home email. If asked to produce any account passwords do so.
Lying is the most easy way not to enter a nation when asked.
Talk to your boss, company security if you have a work phone. That you will have to show it and any data on it. Any accounts, data on that phone might be copied, inspected. Buy a new phone for the trip.
Expect any social media accounts to be on file when questioned. Expect questions about any aspect of social media use going back years.
If a user was happy to support political movements, leaders, showed support for wars, a cult, faith or other issues in their own nation expect most nations to have that found that information and have questions ready.
Most nations do not have to let a person in. Their entry points are created to be a void of most legal protections. If every person wanted court access, a lawyer no bags or devices could be searched. Anyone could enter a nation with anything just by holding up their passport.
So questions can be asked and lying is not going to help. You will be searched and all devices will have any and all data extracted. Any encryption efforts will be discovered. Decryption may not be an option but lying will result in removal.
If your a citizen of that nation, your rights then apply but you have been discovered with something legally interesting.
Courts and other issues happen after questions. Lying is the most easy way to block a person from even entering a nation.
So be ready for a lot of questions, don't have anything on file, or thats been deleted. When asked to give an email password, give it.
If asked about social media, give the password. All your details are on file anyway. The question is asked in the hope that the person will lie and can be removed.
How to avoid all that? Dont use social media outside a work account. Only have email accounts.
Most nations will track down social media by 3 hops. Friends of friends. If any of them have been political interesting in any way, expect a lot of questions.
Telling lies about friends of friends is another easy lie to be caught in.
Re citizenship in different parts of the EU is not that difficult to understand... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
has a nice list of what asylum laws offer, years of residence, what is on offer for refugees and stateless persons or the need to take some integration course.
That an interesting person can turn up in some EU nation, get some new EU nations travel document years later and attempt to enter the USA on that new passport is not unexpected.
To counter such nation shopping by interesting people, the US has to be sure of who is trying to enter from any EU nation.
The origins of the Safe Harbour directives back in the 1980-90's should not now work as a cover for people who are of interest to the US gov.
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Argentina tried a few ideas like that in the 1980's knowing the skills the UK's GCHQ had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Argentina needed a lot of fast, real time communications using equipment that was in place. :)
The GCHQ has most of the worlds mil grade export crypto decryption computer ready thanks to most brands and firms been happy to help the UK gov. Real time decryption was easy and any efforts to link two layers of junk export grade crypto was detected and useless.
The only aspect that slowed the GCHQ down was that Argentina had some South Africa crypto devices that the GCHQ did not know a lot about. That took an unexpected 24h to break given early 1980s' UK computers facing a new mil crypto task.
All communications was then plaint text in real time.
Other nations then equip their mil with that junk and think they have the best the private sector has to offer
So that is not really what your asking about, but shows how governments attack crypto. Govs go to the origins of "export" "brands" that sell mil grade crypto and get the keys. Consumer crypto efforts get the same police or international telco requests for keys. Most govs just ask the designers within their nations to help.
That consumer grade, police friendly product is then a tested, trusted global crypto standard.
Almost all crypto for sale was junk.
South Africa during the 1980's was one of the few nations to have working crypto that was not shared with the US, UK, Soviet Union as designed.
Thats why so many nations allow things like VPN. The home router been used for all networking that can hide everything? No calls for VPN bans or to stop CC payments for all consumer VPN services?
Governments might have found another easy way in and all a VPN service cert will do is make a gov tracking easy.
Use a VPN, the users must be interesting, crypto funding and gov computer time was not an issue.
Any gov will have a passport photo. Travel without a phone, laptop and get asked, about social media?
As a citizen a person can invoke their nations laws, ask for a lawyer, articulate legal protections during the friendly chat down.
Federal, state, city, public/private partnership, charity, NGO efforts to collect and index all social media over the years will then get a facial recognition request.
Past hours, days, weeks, months could be recovered and presented during a chat down or held back to see how a person responds.
Facial recognition is fast so the interview will seem normal, with a short break, change of interview rooms, different staff needed, shift change.
All cover to sort what was found. Or wonder why nothing useful has been found...
If nothing is found is the person in a cult or member of some faith group? Often used as spies as they have no normal online past?
A citizen might walk free hours later but how interested are local/federal officials in that person now?
If a person is not a citizen, one lie and the paperwork is different. A flight back to their own nation.
AC any use of encryption or a different OS mode, encrypted file system can be detected. ...
With the US gov paying, that software is easy to buy and fast to scan any device for can encryption or hidden accounts or a mode setting.
The encryption will hold but the use of such efforts will be found.
If your a citizen the question will be what files are been hidden? Decrypt and its all good...
The use of a flight mode will then be a chat down about hiding digital photos using cryptography. Still feel the need to hide the photos? Is it the gps and the location in an interesting nation? An interesting person is in one of the images? How many photos are been hidden in that device using that "travel" mode?
Need a lawyer? Time to talk to US law enforcement to start an investigation in the US? The US legal system is ready 24/7 with the needed paperwork. Send the device for more detailed examination to find what image files are been hidden?
The US citizen walks free, the device is returned days, weeks later.
Was an investigation opened? Home computer? ISP logs?
What do the ISP logs show? A lot of https searching for hours? Finally some http
If not a US citizen, thats a few lies, time to return to your own nation again.
US gov, federal police, city, state, public/private partnerships, private groups will have collected everything in real time over the years.
A face that finds past use with facial recognition would re build any past social media use.
Politics, parties, friends of friends, funding, support, groups, leaders, other nations, work, holidays.
All a more secure mode hints at is a person knows they will be questioned and tried to quickly hide their digital pasts.
If they are a citizen, expect questions and every device to be searched, cloned, copied, any deleted files on a camera card recovered, any encrypted files systems detected. A few different request for a password.
So a citizen will get to walk out after a few hours of repeated questions, requests for a password, but their need to hide would have been added to a few databases. Any interesting devices will be examined, returned over days or weeks.
What did that person do? Why is that person interesting? Images/gps from another nation they visited while on holiday but had no paperwork for? Why hide the account?
Not a citizen? The interviews go on until the first lie. Deport.
Its fine not to have email, social media, just a phone. But if a person is wanting to enter another nation, expect most online activity to have been found. :)
A photo will have some use for facial recognition. Friends will be found, friends of friends.
Party? Conference photo? Work? Hobby? A person who shows up in a very interesting nation? Friends of friends online?
A person might not have social media but everyone at their work might
Who are they friends with? Who or what do people ate work or friends support on social media?
If you are entering on a visa, the application will often have an email option to track the approval or ask for more supporting documents. That account will then be requested if no social media exists.
Most nations are interested in the faces on social media, connections to other interesting people, groups.
Politics, support, funding of groups. Military background? Political party that funds interesting groups?
People often have such information all over their friends social media.
Yes AC and to get that "residence requirement" you have to be working or a person has to show they are doing something good in Switzerland while getting the years of needed residence...
Re "if we have to fiddle with changing cards every 10 minutes?"
Buy a pro video camera with a 1TB hard drive or consider a consumer product with h264 or 265 support.
"There was never a catastrophe in Switzerland, but their living standard is one of the highest in the world."
:) What happens when 20-40% of a growing population has no skills to work for generations?
Switzerland looks after its own internally and does not let many random people just wonder in and become Swiss.
People can find a job or are supported if a person cant get work or will never work at the very local, canton level. No fraud, no cheating i.e. no illegals can hide in a vast federal system. Any gov support payments are kept at a normal rate per normal population size. Work is encouraged and rewarded. Nice car, nice house, holidays, or own business. Education gets people ready for work. Some military service then ensures every generation knows how to work together and what their nation has to offer. A few days in the mud, cold, in the back of a truck, up a mountain, been in a bunker gets different people talking and helps build a nation.
The ranks of the unemployable are not allowed to rise every generation by inviting lots of unemployable people in.
The medical profession globally is protected to ensure only the best in any nation can work on a citizen in need of help.
Any medical expert on duty should be the best a nation can educate or have passed the same exams.
No wealthy citizen wants to wake up in their own nation and be told some "medical specialist from anywhere in the world" on duty did not have the skills needed to ensure a normal recovery. So most nations are very aware of who they allow to practice medicine. Only the best get to pass tests and practice.
If a nation wants to save its citizens after a crash or in some emergency it can be very simple.
Have great ambulance crews with real skills and the national support they need. Allow helicopters, aircraft to fly in all weather, at night and bring back patients to only the very best hospitals. Most normal nations can fly helicopters at night in 2017 to get people to a fully equipped hospital.
Teams of the best doctors on duty selected only on merit then get to care for citizens. Not a citizen? Have that travel insurance ready.
No student, work or tourist visa without full cover medial insurance.
The same goes for education. Test the students and only support the very best. Ensure the best get to university.
The Soviet and Chinese experiments soon run of free cash and have to export their way back into hard currency.
China today is investing globally but its own people know of all the corruption, lack of free speech and pollution.
The confiscatory rate is going to get very interesting with EU/NATO nations. How to support vast numbers of people moving in illegally and expecting generations of free gov support. Housing, schools, medical, dental for millions of new people with no new tax rates?
Governments could take on more debt to cover welfare costs
Most of that has been tested in courts over the decades AC.
e.g. level of suspicion for canal drug smuggling.
The issue of any particular vehicle been covered by an administrative warrant so roving patrols could counter border smuggling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Recall Congress gave a lot of new power to search for terrorists over the past years. The need to uncover terrorist communications was also considered.
No US court or gov is going to allow sanctuary to terrorist material and has given the legal ability to search at a boarder.
No level of suspicion is needed. No person can block a search with demands for dignity or claim privacy interests.
Just as a bag is searched, a camera card for images, deleted images i.e. searches of property.
No ability to get into the US using laptops, CDs, MP3 players, cellular phones, and digital cameras with terrorist communications or any other material thats illegal in the USA.
If any person has sensitive business information, academic materials and did not expect a search?
They should have consider that and used a computer network or other ways of moving time sensitive data around.
Lots of nations will ask a lot of questions. The US can too thanks to powers granted by Congress.
Why do "travelers" now get to hide things in their laptops or on social networks when entering the USA?
Their support for, funding of and membership of different designated terrorist groups might just show on their social media account.
Images, faces, location... why is all that now given US legal cover to be hidden?
Why not give US CBP agents all the powers they need to search any device, ask for accounts, look at any images on entry to the USA?
If a person is using technical countermeasures, like ‘burner’ laptops and mobile devices? Find that out and ask why? Wait for the lie and then deport.
Re 'warrant before conducting any device searches"? That will slow the ability to search and allow lawyers to enter the search process.
If every search has to be slowed for a warrant, fewer people will be search. More interesting people will just slip into the USA.
Re "demand is likely to be mirrored by foreign governments, which will demand passwords from U.S. citizens"
If another nation wants to keep their nation safe, thats their legal system.
The other issue is the spread of past application questions on social media by alumni. Graduates globally are getting a lot of support in how to pass interviews.
What questions to expect and how to pass.
Always have new questions ready. Social media has allowed too many graduates to seek advice from people who have taken work related tests.
All Windows has now is Direct x 12 and GPU support.
Windows 10 allows games to be created with a lot of different graphics support.
Do developers select tools that let them code for Linux, Apple, Sony and the Windows desktop?
Is it the tools, developer kits? GPU support?
Good workers can work in an office, at home.
... ask about computers.
They can understand an issue and suggest how long it will take to work on a new or complex problem.
see The Mythical Man-Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
To find good staff word the requirements to exclude average and lazy staff.
Read their paper work, make sure it is correct.
Do interviews. Does the resume match the person? Can the person think about problems when asked?
Change up the questions so no interview is the same.
How much contact with computers did the person have over the years?
Computer hobbies? Did all their education provide access to different computer topics?
Don't hire the applicant who did not have access to new and expensive computers over the years.
Your not working out if a nice person wanted to be a vet, doctor, lawyer
A smart person who can think and is articulate during the interview?
Academic results match the paper work presented?
Find good workers and spend time on projects. Your projects are not further education or a charity for very average workers.
Every day wasted on trying to make lazy, average workers happy is a day lost to competitors who had the skills to hire the best workers.
Always hire on merit. Ensure merit is the only consideration.
If you need to hire globally something went very wrong. Any advance nation should have given most of its best students access to computers and a good college education.
Why is that "world-class" person trying to find an international job? Failed in their own nation, failed to get into a top university globally and failed to get a real job from that global education. Having a language skill does not make up for been average.
An average "world-class" applicant is as useful as any average local applicant for the same wage.
If they are still looking for a job, they are not the best. Be aware of online groups, charities and people who help applicants with their paperwork, resumes.
Past interview experiences will be shared. Methods to be ready for complex interviews are offered or sold online.
Always interview and ask new questions.
Talk to a lot of good lawyers before hiring any new staff so the interviews can only result in the best workers been selected.
The origin device and big brand destination would be interesting.
The only question will be knowing what a friend of a friend was doing on social media a few years ago. ... funding... helping...
How long have they been supporting
Its like a smarter 1984 world let the people party for a decade just to track their interactions later.
Room 101 was always waiting.
How low level could that be? Does the telco or device OS hardware or software log an account has been swapped?
The US gov could just then have software to look into a device log for that setting and see it was changed mins or a hour ago.
The first and only lie needed would be about that phone.
Any encrypted material would be detected. US software used to scan devices would find any such use of encryption or altered file system.
The same with any camera card or laptop.
Most security staff for any larger US brand would be aware of what other nations do to any US device that enters their nation.
Hotel staff help look for any devices in a hotel room, wireless or physical access is attempted.
Most security would suggest entering another nation with a totally clean phone ready for that nations telco services.
Any VPN use, cloud or other long term per device settings are what any nations security services are looking for.
Re entering the US and having that device scanned will show any crypto, apps.. just like any other citizen re-entering the US with a digital device.
AC the US gov has the funds to buy software to detect any use of encryption.
Once found? Decrypt or lie?
If your not a US citizen the options are clear.
If you are a US citizen, expect parallel construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... if no questions got asked.
Most of that is the new chat down ideas that get sold by private groups to the US gov. Buy their expensive chat down system and all US staff/workers can then see if a person has something to hide. Great for the groups and brands selling such technology and constant further education to the US gov. :)
Such questions will flow on with car rental services, helpful airline staff after a flight, taxi, local hotel staff, currency, technology shops once just in the USA.
A lot of that is now online, digital, but if still possible some chat will be attempted.
The questions are in depth and part of a public/private partnership. CCTV is also kept for many months. Did a person need to hire a car, had local friends... who are the friends?
Pay cash, a CC? Go to a hotel? Drive or get driven deep into the USA but mentioned they needed a local hotel... ?
Every driver and passenger face, their license plate gets recorded driving in and out of the area. Very few big new roads make that simple
All staff in related shops, providing services will try the same chat down but have been told to hide it under a friendly cover that a tourist would expect as just been part of friendly service.
It is done to random people so no group in the USA can then claim they are been selected for extra questions.
Most interesting groups, faiths, cults, spies now understand such approaches and have prepared for all such approaches and chat downs.
As a US citizen a person would face the normal courts and legal protections after discovery of digital material, items that are illegal in the USA.
Returning to the USA a person cannot start lying, or block that discovery.
Congress and courts in the US are very clear on what can be asked, searched for and how a person is then moved into the court system.
i.e. a person does not get to enter the USA with anything illegal just by having a US passport and demanding a court needs to approve a bag search.
The bag is searched, every image on a digital camera is looked at, any images get recovered.
On discovery its US lawyer time and then time to face a US court. All rights are respected and apply.
Thats nice if a person is a citizen. If your not a citizen, a person will not get to hide things, i.e. a person is lying and will be removed.
Most nation have seen all that legal effort by citizens. Most nations ensure everything can be searched, questions asked. Images can be looked at, recovered. Bags searched, devices accessed.
Any expected questioned asked to anyone entering that are blocked, refused is lying. No protection is granted to lie.
If a person is not a citizen, they don't get cover to lie. If they are a citizen the questions and investigations have just started.
So have a phone. A new phone with a new account from back in your own nation thats account ready for your destination.
It powers on, has a list of apps. It can be called. So any security questions about devices will fit in with what is expected of most people in 2017.
A laptop should be new. Only have productivity apps.
A camera should have a new card/s in it. Do not use the card. Any images on it will be looked at. Any camera deleted images can and will be recovered.
For any paperwork use your work or normal home email. If asked to produce any account passwords do so.
Lying is the most easy way not to enter a nation when asked.
Talk to your boss, company security if you have a work phone. That you will have to show it and any data on it. Any accounts, data on that phone might be copied, inspected. Buy a new phone for the trip.
Expect any social media accounts to be on file when questioned. Expect questions about any aspect of social media use going back years.
If a user was happy to support political movements, leaders, showed support for wars, a cult, faith or other issues in their own nation expect most nations to have that found that information and have questions ready.
Most nations do not have to let a person in. Their entry points are created to be a void of most legal protections. If every person wanted court access, a lawyer no bags or devices could be searched. Anyone could enter a nation with anything just by holding up their passport.
So questions can be asked and lying is not going to help. You will be searched and all devices will have any and all data extracted. Any encryption efforts will be discovered. Decryption may not be an option but lying will result in removal.
If your a citizen of that nation, your rights then apply but you have been discovered with something legally interesting.
Courts and other issues happen after questions. Lying is the most easy way to block a person from even entering a nation.
So be ready for a lot of questions, don't have anything on file, or thats been deleted. When asked to give an email password, give it.
If asked about social media, give the password. All your details are on file anyway. The question is asked in the hope that the person will lie and can be removed.
How to avoid all that? Dont use social media outside a work account. Only have email accounts.
Most nations will track down social media by 3 hops. Friends of friends. If any of them have been political interesting in any way, expect a lot of questions.
Telling lies about friends of friends is another easy lie to be caught in.
Re citizenship in different parts of the EU is not that difficult to understand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
has a nice list of what asylum laws offer, years of residence, what is on offer for refugees and stateless persons or the need to take some integration course.
That an interesting person can turn up in some EU nation, get some new EU nations travel document years later and attempt to enter the USA on that new passport is not unexpected.
To counter such nation shopping by interesting people, the US has to be sure of who is trying to enter from any EU nation.
The origins of the Safe Harbour directives back in the 1980-90's should not now work as a cover for people who are of interest to the US gov.
AC onion routing seems to be trackable by US federal law enforcement with per case funding.