On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 05:19:13PM -0500, Nico Williams wrote:
*That* would be a huge deal. I don't quite believe it likely to happen
though: it would require lots of new hardware and staffing to do
anything useful with every visitor's devices and password [...]
It would. But it would require neither new hardware nor staffing to
do something useful with *some* visitors' devices and passwords and to
merely engage in security theater with the rest. It appears that
this policy is intended to be comprehensive in order to avoid subsequent
court challenges based on the selection of certain groups of people.
[...] _and_ keep entry bandwidth as high as today (_and_ keep tourism
and business travel to the U.S. from collapsing).
It's not at all clear that either of these are policy objectives.
---rsk