Libbie did nothing wrong

I'm being watched by one of these as I type this!

Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's dangerous.

from the can't-beat-em',- but -'em dept.

I thought the 911 referred to the amount of systems he launched attacks on.

Except the ticket sale DID disclose these requirements, and this is a place of business where people using their phones actually presents a problem for other customers. It would be pretty ridiculous if I had to have my phone locked everywhere, but I'm not disrupting peoples grocery shopping by checking a text, and people aren't blocking my view of the shelf with a massive tablet.

It is. You are on someone else's property, and they have the right to at least know what you are carrying onto it.

They aren't looking in your pocket. They are asking you to remove a specific object from it IF you have it. unless you have some private info scrawled all over the case, it shouldn't be too much of a privacy issue for them to have you put your phone in a bag.

What privacy is being invaded? They aren't searching your phone, they are making sure you don't use it during the event. Even if there was a privacy issue here, it's completely avoidable by leaving your phone at home.

is no one going to talk about the line "child porn on notorious 4chan porn."?

unless I'm missing something to this story, getting malware from a torrent seems like an already well known issue.

I think that a story about a likely future world leader's stance on technological issues fits perfectly well on a tech news site.