https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/immigration-advo...

>CBP only searched the electronic devices of 55,318 international travelers,” the agency wrote, or 0.0013%.

would suck to be one of those 55 thousand people. I've never been bitten by a shark but I sure care about people that have?

I get asked to unlock my dev laptop every single time I go from the US to Montreal. The TSA person sits there and waits for my WM to boot before waving me past.

It seems more like they're trying to determine that it is in fact a laptop and not something resembling one.

Dismissing something as false just because you haven’t personally experienced it is quite something

I believe the parent comment is talking about leaving US, coming back to the US and then having US's border patrol do so. If that is also what you understood, are you an activist or anyone whom would be of interest to the feds to be asked so? Otherwise saying "I've never been asked" sounds like a common thing for most people.

TSA thought it odd that I had two MBPs (work and personal) and an iPad in my carry on, and asked me to power up all three.