How is any of this related to what Slashdot is supposed to be about?
Um... It may affect their right to work on strong encryption software?
Remember that twenty years in the future, many parts of the world will mature.
We can only hope that that includes the US.
The second password shouldn't brick the phone, it should take you to a second version of your phone's file system, which contains only the "happy birds" game, a collection of bad but sincere teenage poetry, and a spreadsheet listing the names of each member of Canada's federal government cabinet alongside a 6 figure dollar number.
... just like every assassin's phone.
yet Border Services thinks they need to inspect the data on everyone's phones?
No, not everyone's phones, just phones of people they suspect of something. It's the same deal with inspecting the contents of suitcases. They don't inspect everyone's suitcases, just some of them.
They must suspect everyone, because every suitcase gets X-Rayed.
I really enjoyed Predestination.
You were meant to.
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. - David Letterman
