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March 15, 2017, 11:39:48 PM
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The New US administration under Donald Trump has raised the Border security at customs points when entering the US. Customs agents are searching mobile phones and other electronic devices using a complex algorithm to establish what Bitcoin or any other security info may be contained on the gadget.

The US Customs officials have hiked their game at border security by enforcing access to travellers’ mobile phones. A phone can be seized and analysed for any threat to national security for an amount of time before being given back to the rightful owner.

You can read the full article here: https://coinidol.com/us-agents-access-mobile-phones-bitcoin-information/

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March 15, 2017, 11:43:27 PM
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I don't think they are solely targeting bitcoin but anything to do with crypto technology which can be attributed to creating any sort of encryption that they are worried about. Since they can't read what those messages are.
Why else do you think they were infuriated when wikileaks wanted to give up their hacking tools to the public with what they've used for whatsapp, telegram and signal platforms to read those instant messages sent out to terrorists or whatever they are looking for with this searches at the airport customs tables.
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