A must-read for every Canadian - most especially those with American work or student visas. Powerful testimony about the soul-stripping consequences of being caught up in the American for-profit immigration detention system. Thank you, Ms. Mooney, for bearing witness - and leveraging your privilege to speak for those without voice. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m… #Canada #ICE #cdnpoli
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was luckyGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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in reply to Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦 • • •We must immediately form a brigade of these women to weaponize their anti-disinformation powers and send them in waves against the American border.
Each will require an Instagram consultant as their control officer back in YPW Command Central, who will ensure their brave sacrifices receive maximum reach and impact.
Each will be rewarded with a small role in one of our TV shows starring preposterously attractive police, lawyers, and doctors. Fortunately, these shows need them all.
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in reply to Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦 • • •The USA is a Hyper-Surveillance Police State Dystopia.
Abandon all hope ye who enter therein.
teledyn 𓂀
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I am curious: how frequently are devices searched this thorough? I haven't travelled abroad in decades, and US Customs only asked that I power on the device to prove it was what it was.
But to search contents?
Roy Brander🍁
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Your question implies that nothing has changed from past administrations and we can rely upon our past experience.
Nobody has been told to pick out certain foreigners before just for political review, so they didn't.
Now, somebody "dressed like a leftist" might find your phone can be checked in 5 minutes flat by a computer, and of course the NSA has been recording your every email and post for 15 years.
It's what we were worried about when
Snowden showed it
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My question assumes nothing of the sort: I asked how often, not what is believed, but what is, presently, fact. They found one at that search, but how many phones were searched before they found that one single target?
I find it also hard to believe that was the only phone onboard with anti-Trump material. But I also found wave-particle reality hard to believe until it was measured.
And I'm dubious of the five minute search, you have witnessed this?
Roy Brander🍁
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I've done it.
A straightforward app uses the plug into the phone to copy every data directory to a faster computer that can search for keywords and combinations.
The "five minutes" does depend on how many GB are in the phone.
teledyn 𓂀
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In five minutes?? I will accept that you have indeed tested this, but I remain dubious.
Roy Brander🍁
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Well, I just pulled every photo, download, and document off my phone in 1.8 minutes, but then I only had 2 GB.
The speed it ran at would have carried 6.6GB off the phone in 300 seconds, five minutes.
Of course, it would depend on what you're carrying around. Even then, if they skip photos and movies an d just go for text files, emails, etc, 6.6GB is a lot.
And you can hand over your password or be refused entry, that's long established. No privacy rights.
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So then likely not enough time to scan and discover that one juicy one. Would take longer farting about to choose folders and files, so a dump of the user partition as a block, and hope the pdfs are clear text?
Roy Brander🍁
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If you grab everything, the copy runs faster, that might be simplest.
It barely rises to the level of "AI" to write a program that looks at folder names, email-titles, searches every byte of text for keywords or word-combinations; using a database of 10,000 confiscated phones to know every trick every drug dealer ever tried, and of course every smuggler. Tries top 1000 passwords.
Their every rule-of-thumb encoded in the program.
While U wait!
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#Panopticon seems a far more likely culprit. Positive ID in the crowd, and so targeted not for merely seeming 'lefty' but as was said before, because they already had a dossier.
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Roy Brander🍁
in reply to teledyn 𓂀 • • •@teledyn @dkmackinnon
I'm your basic IT engineer who happens to know a bunch of the "OpenBSD" security guys, but not a security professional.
You might read:
washingtonpost.com/technology/…
...they keep the phone image in a database for 15 years.
I was giving the technical time-needed, but Newsweek says they take 30 minutes in practice.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/what-…
..article notes how rare it is, bringing us back to my post that it may become more common now, because it's getting easier.
What If U.S. Border Agents Ask for Your Cellphone?
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in reply to teledyn 𓂀 • • •@teledyn @RoyBrander @dkmackinnon Let me tell you a story. In 2020, the Alberta Court of Appeal ruled unanimously that portions of the Customs Act were unconstitutional.
The court found the act violated the protection against unreasonable search and seizure by border agents, because it allowed for what the court called “suspicion-less and unlimited” searches of our personal digital devices. #cdnpoli #abpoli #Canada #Alberta #S7
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That violation, held the court, could not be saved by section 1 of the Charter, because it allowed unfettered and unrestricted access to people’s most personal and intimate information, and because it allowed the state almost unlimited latitude to dig around in the what the court called our “biographical core of identity.” The powerful judgment was written by Madame Justice Ritu Khullar, would would go on to become Alberta's chief justice.
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