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It seems like the writing is on the wall.

There will be some Official Ruling that you can't do this (probably antiquated 20th century) thing because that constitutes an Unlawful Search or whatever. Thank you to the Constitution for protecting our freedoms, etc.

Meanwhile, there will be a much more powerful way to achieve that goal using a smartphone, which is 100x more subtle and effective, which will be legal because technically it doesn't cross the big red line. There will be some arcane logic here that only a lawyer could love, but it will amount to 20th century technique = banned, 21st century cellphone technique = fine. So everyone will do that.

It'll just get more pronounced over time.




Look at Katz to see the opposite.


I second this. That kind of trickery is absolutely obvious to the judiciary, and as of yet Katz hasn't been overturned, even if it has been at times pointedly ignored.




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