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