[tynan]

I had an interaction like this in Canada. The options they give you are to give up your passwords, log in to your online banks to show them transactions, etc., or have everything confiscated.

The reason they did it to me is because they thought I was a drug smuggler. They got that idea because I was going to China and didn't have a fixed itinerary, which they found to be incredibly suspicious.

I'm not sure if the non-techie cop was playing good cop/bad cop or not, but he was yelling at me and accusing me of being a liar from the beginning. Because I knew I hadn't done anything wrong and wasn't lying, it was pretty comical, but it became really upsetting once they started threatening to seize everything if I didn't give up my passwords.

[dpatrick86]

Sort of amusing that it's the lack of fixed schedule that really rattled him. Dude sounds like he could use a sabbatical himself.