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.
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.
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.
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Perhaps you can find some phone hackers here to dump the image and applications, then have a forensics competition.