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Nice idea. But it's treating the symptom rather than the root problem.

I agree. But the practical alternative right now is doing nothing.

Fair enough!

There are many good ideas here and I'll even wager that a 'trip mode' of some sort could even produce benefits outside of the held-at-the-border use case. It really does seem silly at retrospect that these tech giants have decided the default needed to be "expose all of the connections"

In fact, the border case is just an edge case. You also want your accounts protected if you lose your unlocked phone, have it stolen, have your password stolen, log in on a dodgy public computer, plug in an infected USB stick, or leave your laptop unattended in the wrong hotel room.

The root problem is terrorists wanting to kill people.

That's not a good excuse for denying ordinary people of their basic rights. There will always be killers anytime, anywhere.

Inbound foreign travelers to the US have pretty much already been screened.

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