Its been happenings for months in the minority areas of China.
Sounds like this was there too:
"this happened at the land border between Osh, Kyrgyzstan and Kashgar, China."
Another week goes by, another reason never to set foot in mainland China.
Yeah because the us is preferred, huh?
For those on HN who are born in the US, it's reasonable to avoid Mainland China because they don't want a second superpower messing with their devices. For those of us here in Europe, the OP is a good reason to avoid Mainland China regardless of whether the US is better or worse. No need for whataboutism, I avoid both countries.
This seems like a great opportunity to reverse engineer the code, have a competition to find the top ten best / easiest ways to neuter the code or make it give fake feedback, then publicize your competition findings.
Perhaps you can find some phone hackers here to dump the image and applications, then have a forensics competition.
Do they have the ability to do this on iOS?
What if you refuse to unlock your phone?
I doubt they have this ability. They’d effectively have to jailbreak the phone to do this (assuming Apple isn’t complicit) and it’s unlikely many locals have iOS devices.
Doesn't Graykey install a jailbreak through an exploit?
Then they'll jailbreak your face
Then they can just refuse you entry though.
correct and it may be easier so you can move forward to let them do it regardless. Having been to China recently I didn't experience this but I did have to take out all my devices and have them looked at. It was done in front of me and no funny business.