Big Brother at the Border Is Searching for a ‘Hidden Language’ in People’s Text Messages

The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a bad snooping habit and is looking for a little help to make it fixed. According to a String reportThe agency is currently preparing ideas for the digital judiciary, which allows you to process and analyze and analyze and analyze and analyze and analyze and analyze and analyze and analyze the “secret” patterns from technological companies.

One Federal Registry List In June CBP, the devices seized from people in the United States are looking for text messages, pictures, videos, connections and other information that can scan the connections and other information. However, more than processing all data, wants a tool that can find samples inside. The agency wants to be able to find a “secret language” in a person’s text messages as “may not be known in the first appearance” coded terms. You also need to identify specific items visible in videos and photos and the agency wants to quickly process the information for Intel generation.

Survey, which seemed to be a pizzhagate level of pizzagate levels, as long as many devices are seized from the digital judiciary. Searched in 2015 8.500 Device. This figure was sliding 41,500 devices in 2023According to the agency’s data. He also took 4,200 “Detailed” SearchesIn 2024, a digital trial in a device includes deeply diving.

CBP right now Israel uses Cellebrite tools from intelligence firm To scan devices, but if someone has a more powerful tool to offer, it looks open for newcomers. Agency “Different variety of digital data claims that it uses extraction tools Per wiredTherefore, it is not like the fact that it is mentioned by Cellebrite.

The agency has not been exactly Shy about the scrambled phones and other devices under the second period of Trump. CBP agents May ask travelers and will Those who cause some travelers to unlock their devices and unlock Prefer to pick up a burning phone When it comes to the border, he trips to the United States to prevent unnecessary inspection.

As a request for this potential new vehicle, CBP suggested that a seller will choose a seller and sign a contract to build a system in the third quarter of 2026. Thus, in 2027, a new authoritarian dystopia feature may fall for a while.