Just to be clear, the phone and iPad had been wiped before coming and had just enough information on them to complete the trip, i.e. a map to the startpad.org office, and the needed phone numbers, nothing else.
The U.S. has internet access, so upload everything to the cloud(encrypted) and then sync when you get there, which is what the plan was.
Also having an encrypted device is useless if they can hold you until you open it.
Finally I was talking to someone about this yesterday evening, they had their laptop taken off them for about 10 minutes by the border agents, in that time they installed a rookit on it to track keystrokes.
> ...had their laptop taken off them for about 10 minutes by the border agents, in that time they installed a rookit on it to track keystrokes.
Really? How certain is he that the keylogger was a recent addition? I have a hard time believing that an ordinary border agent is that technically competent, even if he just had to put in a usb device and select a few menu options.
The U.S. has internet access, so upload everything to the cloud(encrypted) and then sync when you get there, which is what the plan was.
Also having an encrypted device is useless if they can hold you until you open it.
Finally I was talking to someone about this yesterday evening, they had their laptop taken off them for about 10 minutes by the border agents, in that time they installed a rookit on it to track keystrokes.