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If you are traveling out of the country, leave your real phone at home, and get a burner phone for travel, with no business or old social media on it.
Take pictures on vacation, and if you have to use social media, start new accounts for your trip, and dont post ANYTHING political or controversial, just vacation posts.
Don't travel to the US.
As an American -- please don't come here until we've sorted our shit out. Money is frankly the only thing these morons will listen to.
As someone who makes at least part of their living from tourists, i agree. Avoid America right now. Most foreign tourists travel to Florida, which is the MAGA Nazi Homeland. Stay away, and make them feel it. I'll ride it out.
Tell them to fuck off.
Make sure your phone is already turned off before you go through.
Refuse to let them turn it on.
“I can’t remember my password”
Smile and be polite but make sure they hear the “fuck off nazi” in your tone.
DO NOT CONSENT TO A SEARCH.
I love the spirit of what you're saying, but per the attorney's advice in this article, they might seize your phone no matter what you say, password protection with no fingerprint or face scan unlock should ideally keep them out (note that law enforcement usually can take your picture or finger print you without needing a warrant or anything, but they can't force you to tell them a password), but you will probably never get that device back and you could be detained indefinitely while they try to intimidate you into waiving your 5th amendment silence rights.
So because citizens have an absolute right to reenter the country, they have a bit more leverage to, you know, deny a request or refuse to comply with requests to unlock their phone. But that doesn't mean that there aren't going to be consequences. They could be detained for several hours. Their phone could eventually be confiscated. So even U.S. citizens have to think about those potential consequences.
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[As for lawful permanent residents,] [t]echnically, they also have to be let back into the country, but as we've seen in sort of a nonborder contexts, the government and the current administration is pretty willing to question the status of LPRs. And so we always say that, you know, they should be especially kind of mindful and thoughtful about how they comport themselves at the border.
I think your best strategies would be 1) just do not travel to the United States if it can at all be avoided; 2) if you must to travel to the US, don't bring any electronic devices capable of storing media with you, purchase new ones after you are past the border, securely download what you need, then erase and destroy those devices before leaving; 3) if purchasing throwaway devices isn't an option, just act as white as you possibly can and just hope you get lucky and they ignore you.
Act as white as possible lol
Demand to speak to their manager!
I snorted and blew out snot at this comment. Good job.
This 100% is a thing, and it helps. My wife isn't white but can turn it on and fool almost anyone. It has gotten her out of tickets, sticky situations, rude service industry etc.. it's hilarious to watch.
lol. I am white but I don’t know how to act white. Am I screwed ?
Act like you’re at a classic rock concert instead of punk rock, just turn the basic up to 11.
Turn the basic up to 11 lolllll. You nailed it
Face scan unlock is NOT enough. When crossing the border turn OFF the phone. Don't just lock it, full off. The security protections from cellibrite attacks are much much much much stronger if it is off
password protection with no face unlock
Even so, off is better. Disk is unencrypted when on, leading to potential extraction. When off, there is more protection
If you’re a US citizen they can only hold you for 48 hours without pressing charges. I no longer have faith that limit will be enforced, but it’s there in theory.
Didn't you hear? Due process is suspended indefinitely. /s (sorta)
Do you speak Spanish? You might need it in your next destination to communicate with your cellmates.
Don't do that. Be nice and respectful when you are asserting your rights. Nothing good comes from being an ass about it
You don't and haven't had rights near the boarder since the Patriot Act. If you're traveling, use a burner phone and backup/wipe your laptop. Setup a NAS at home and do not setup any logins for it on the laptop before you arrive at your destination if you really need files.
I will only travel with work devices from now on. Big tech is complicit in electing Trump, they can deal with my devices being seized by immigration
If you're not a citizen you don't have any rights. It's nearly impossible to file a complaint after they deported you. They can just deny you entry (or worse) and even if technically it was illegal there's nothing you can do about it.
Wipe phone, set it up with dummy info like a Gmail account that you’ve previously signed up for random newsletters.add your mom and your dr as contacts, cross border, wipe it again, then restore from cloud.
When I was supporting people in hostile countries they would use a “burner” device. It literally was considered unusable upon return.
There’s a story about how a person brought back a cheap Pdu from an hotel they were staying ant and one day it caught on fire. IT opened it, because power strips are designed to not catch on fire, to find a bug in it.
If it about of your sight for any amount of time it’s probably untrustworthy.
because I'm sometimes too literal, you mean a surveillance bug, not an insect bug?
Sorry yes it was surveillance.
wipe phone
I'm not convinced there is any way to reliably wipe private stuff from a phone. You have to have a separate phone for travel purposes. Buy it new and never let anything really private onto it.
Which US citizen did he deport? I'm not aware of that
I think you posted this comment in the wrong thread btw
What if you open the phone with a secondary account and allow them to search it without disclosure of the other accounts?
I wouldn't trust that
Its also important to note that there is a big difference between US border patrol and ICE. You should know who you are interacting with.
Use a pass code. Do not use fingerprint or face ID unlock.
The current law is that you can be compelled to unlock your phone with your face or finger. (Probably should require a search warrant).
You cannot be compelled to say what a pass code or password is. You have the right to remain silent.