the last time this idiocy was going around, companies were switching employees to netbooks, chromebooks, thin clients, burners, etc. when traveling – default install, don’t log in until in the other country, log out or wipe before leaving the other country – this time, the corporations seem perfectly happy to capitulate and throw their corporate secrets (and the employees) under the bus …
When you travel, bring as few devices as possible with you. Obviously, you’ll bring your phone with you, but leave your laptop at home if you can.
Last time I travelled overseas I took a burner phone without a calling plan, and just used it as a wifi device at the hotel. I used google maps and “offline maps”, GPS still worked. Used the phone as a camera, and I would have uploaded anything private and wiped locally but that wasn’t necessary.
If anyone at the border had asked, I’d have said it was so I didn’t risk losing my phone, and so work couldn’t call me up and bug me during vacation.
Here’s what travelers should know: “This site isn’t available in your region | usatoday.com”
Yeah very cool. Also I presume that translates to “We can’t be fucked to care about user privacy enough to comply with GDPR”. And also “We can’t be fucked to know what the EU is”. Because they are blocking access to me here in Switzerland, outside the EU, where GDPR doesn’t apply.
Buy a burner phone. Use a newly created email. Don’t install any of your socials (not even lemmy).
Use only Signal (with messages auto deleted after being read) to be in touch with the really close friends and family.
Don’t bring your personal laptop.
If it’s a longish stay you may install socials a few days after completing immigration. But don’t use fingerprint or Face ID in that case.
The neat part of this is then getting detained for even longer for “suspicious activity”
Hopefully the respective country’s embassy and place of work (outside of work, study I don’t see why anyone would want to go to that hellscape) can step in. Like check in with your significant other post landing when you’re waiting at immigration checkpoint. And if you’re not heard from after that, alarm bells should go off and embassies should be informed.
Sounds like not coming here at all would be much simpler.
Wow. Here is a free guide from the EFF, though it’s from 2017 so I don’t know how useful it still is.
Just uninstall your social media apps from your phone before going through security. Download them and log in again when you get past the Nazis. Better yet just avoid the USA. Mexico is nice
The photos app can also be an issue imo
Can’t this be avoided, at least on Android, by simply shutting down your phone? Thought I read somewhere that they lock down everything, even system processes, after turning on again until you unlock it again. Or are you also forced to type the password and let them in?
You have no rights and the ‘government’ in america has to follow/abide by no laws anymore. Whatever you think/know about the us is 100% irrelevant now. It’s a lawless dictatorship
You avoid it by never going to america, or by leaving and never returning.
Border entry is different than self incrimination.
If you are charged with a crime you cannot be compelled to give a password as it resides in your head. However if you use finger prints or face recognition to unlock it you’re SOL.
Best thing to do is get an android and setup a dummy account. use that account when you get off the plane so when you unlock it there is nothing to go through.
The best thing is to just not go to the US
The law requires you to unlock it, but as far as I’m aware its legality has never faced a major challenge and there are some civil rights groups who are confident it won’t survive one.
Truth be told though most phones don’t have robust enough security to withstand even a short duration attack from the tools available to law enforcement.
They can force biometric unlocks. That cannot force you to give them your password.
That is in a criminal investigation. They can just deny you entry if you dont unlock.
Depends where you are, some jurisdictions within the US will order you to produce a password in some circumstances and hold you in contempt until you do and that decision has been upheld by higher courts, notably the third circuit.
There are exceptions to most things, yes.
None of it is relevant at the border though, they dont have to do anything other than deny entry.
Except that you can’t unlock an android phone with your fingerprint/face if you just turned it on. The first time you unlock it you have to use your pattern/pin.
GrapheneOS with factory reset. Using boot verification.
You must unlock your phone for them
If you really need to, go without a phone and buy a cheap one there. Memorize a few numbers and use a single application to handle your communications.
I would probably be detained. I have no mainstream social media, keep no images on my phone and don’t use gmail.
TL;DR: Don’t enter the US, it’s a fascist oligarchy with zero respect for human rights or privacy.
What does this mean:
If you’re a green card holder, do your research. “You have to have a good understanding of what the visa category that you’re coming in allows you to do and does not allow you to do,” Heubel said.
Once you have a green card what visa categories could you fall into? I thought once you were a permanent resident and could do whatever you want except vote.
Would it help to have electronics, phone included, in your checked baggage?
If not, then people might have to consider smuggling their phone through in a brick of coke. Or put it in a condom and swallow it.
The airline will have issues with you putting lithium batterys in the hold. This has caused fires and taken planes down. Have to keep elecronics in the cabin where the user and crew can respond on they short and cause a fire.
Your brick off columbin nose powder is safe to go in the hold.
I have traveled many times with my electronics in the hold. Turns out has long as your battery is attached to the device (meaning not loose) it will be fine. But then security wise I don’t know if it will change much. security can access your luggage: