

Because, while Switzerland is not part of the EU, it follows many of its regulations. Maybe even most of them.
In this particular case, I happen to know that the inofficial rule is indeed to have burner phones for travel into the us in some cases. But you’re never supposed to have unencrypted data on your phone or laptop in any case.
Aaron was about as much a cofounder of reddit as Musk is a cofounder of tesla. Source: I was on reddit when he joined and I remember his own yc-startup Infogami.