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Can I ask how long it takes to 'copy' someone's phone data?

The mid-level consumer tech I have access to takes a most of a work day to copy my wife's 80GB of iphone 7+ data to a flash drive.

Based on this, I doubt they have some sort of magic thing that will just copy everything on your phone as you pass through a checkpoint.

Do they hold you until the copy is done?

Or do they have some super fast thing that works on every device?

Honestly curious.




I’m also curious whether the copying device works with all models. If I went back to my old iPhone 3, for example, would they still be able to snag a copy? Might their surveillance be foiled by want of a dongle?

Edit— From the photos posted further down thread it seems like they’re armed with every imaginable dongle...




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