In case you have not noticed, the two things most people excel at is stupidity and denial.

What a deeply hateful comment. Well, I guess you are a full-on psycho with no compassion and no human decency.

How will that help here?

Legally not really different from what was done here. Now if you had two working braincells and just erased all problematic data before you got to the border ...

Yes. The only sane thing is to NOT carry any problematic data. But many tech nerds are too stupid to understand how things actually work in the real world.

In case you have not noticed, the average US "adult" is a mental child these days. Clueless crypto-nerds are worse.

They will have you plug in some memory stick. And then you are cooked. Because next they will ask you to unlock the encrypted areas they found. No, THEY do not need to prove it is encrypted. YOU will have to prove it is not. Have fun in prison.

Exactly. I make sure to zero-wipe empty space before I go over any dangerous border. I mean, finding random data areas is an absolute standard function on any forensics software package. And then they will make YOU prove it is not encrypted data. Oh, you cannot prove that? Well, too bad for you.

That "hidden volume" is not hidden. Standard storage forensics finds it. And then they will just lock you up until you give them access. Oh, it is "randomness wiped empty space" you say? Well, I guess you will stay locked up forever, then.

Your "solution" is about as stupid as what the person from the story did. The actual solution is to NOT care that data when going over any dangerous border. Get some cloud storage, put an encrypted image in there. See? Not hard to get right.

The 4th Amendment is not in effect while crossing the US border. You do not seem to know your laws.

He would have been. This person is clearly as dumb as bread.

Yes. But the person from the story is clearly not smart.

This is not the EU. In the EU they need a court order to search your phone. And no, he is not very likely to win.

Where do you take that from? An LLM marketing pamphlet?

You guess wrong. Very, very few things transform societies. The hype will crash, some minor somewhat useful tools for everybody will remain (and some specialist applications as well), but mostly things will go back to normal.