California appeals court approves cell phone sucking

[thewayne]

So theoretically, if you get pulled over for a traffic stop, the officer can suck your phone dry using the same sort of device they use in cell phone stores to transfer data between phones. Your best defense is to silence it and put it in the glove compartment and refuse all requests to search your car without a search warrant.

Since this is an appellate court, hopefully it'll get appealed to the SCOTUS.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/1234232/calif-appeals-court-approves-cell-phone-searches