Minnov8 Gang 394 – Give Up Your Passwords at the U.S. Border

Are you a U.S. citizen? Then you should know that, if you travel internationally, when you come back to the U.S. you may be forced to reveal your device passwords (e.g., smartphone, tablet, laptop) as well as providing U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers with passwords to your social media and other accounts.

Farfetched? Nope…read this article to get one tech guy’s perspective on what happened this past week to a NASA guy who is a U.S. citizen: I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you.

Update: Here is the Department of Homeland Security Privacy Impact Assessment for the Border Searches of Electronic Devices (PDF) which, by the way, has not been updated since 2009.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson

Music: Hop Skip And A Jump by DJ Ecklectic Mick under a CC by 4.0 License

The Podcast

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

• Minnedemo recap


• InnovateMN launches


• Code42 co-founder’s stealthy startup hires Cutler to lead AI


• Land O’ Lakes creates $150,000 contest for agricultural drone technology


• Twin Cities companies team up for virtual reality property showings

Gang Mentality: Is the true cost of social networks and mobile tech our privacy?

• There is a security “hole in Facebook” that lets anyone see all of your private data called “StalkScan”


• Facebook is developing tools to read through people’s private messages, Mark Zuckerberg manifesto suggests


• Facebook just changed its mission, because the old one was broken


• ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ needed to deter nation-state hacking: Microsoft president

Other Top Tech Stories

• Tim Cook says augmented reality is ‘a big idea like the smartphone’


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• 99.6% of new smartphones run iOS or Android; RIP Windows and Blackberry


• USB Killer now lets you fry most Lightning and USB-C devices for $55


• Signal app gets video calling overhaul and a warning for iOS users

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: Trout Spotr


• Tim: Moment 2.0: Make Your Phone A Better Camera


• Steve: Logitech 4K Pro Webcam

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