This has to be about searching electronic devices easier. If your computer is in your luggage, they can take their sweet time gaining access. If it is on your carry on, you are going to get pushback from the person you are searching. I don't know the specifics, but I've always assumed your checked luggage falls under the, "we can do whatever the fuck we want with it" agreement. I have personally had my belongings fucked up by customs. All my clothes wadded into balls, electronics left out of their protective cases and just generally jumbling all my shit. Knowing what we know from IC leaks, there are backdoors and encryption is not the end all be all. If Bannon and Co. got briefed on the tools that still exist, they probably connected the dots and said, Ok, we can gain access to most consumer electronics, we want to skim all intel we can from every muslim, how about we gain access to all their laptops and other electronic devices without a big show of it, get them to put it in their checked bag and ICE goons can use toolkits to pull data from the devices. I would normally stop here to qualify how ridiculous this type of speculation is, but with Trump admin, the sky is the limit. I expect a journalist will install some tamper tracing software on their laptop and travel from one of those countries soon and prove their device was accessed while in their luggage within a week of this thing going live.
