What I'm missing here is a simple: Don't use a laptop or cellphone to store sensitive information in the first place (regardless of whether of not you take it across the border). That seems to be the simplest precaution of all.
Was that an option or was it assumed un-avoidable that people will always have a smart phone or laptop with sensitive info on them? (so it would have to be an iphone according to the article) whereas that is assuming the choice has already been made that you have to have a smartphone to begin with.
What you're missing here is that the work these people do requires them to use computers and phones, and telling them to stop using them is like telling them to be 1/100th as effective as they would be otherwise.
This isn't "advice for refugees entering the country whose lives depend on getting past CBP".
Was that an option or was it assumed un-avoidable that people will always have a smart phone or laptop with sensitive info on them? (so it would have to be an iphone according to the article) whereas that is assuming the choice has already been made that you have to have a smartphone to begin with.