US citizens can not be prohibited re-entry into the US.
I look forward to not unlocking my phone and taking it to court if it comes down to it next month.
A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
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Re: A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
#32This happens in Canada too, unfortunately (was in the news quite a bit not too long ago, and can be seen in action on that reality TV show about border security). Best to wipe your phone, and not bring any sensitive documents across borders period.
Yes, you should wipe your phone, but after they have been in the back room with it for an hour it is compromised and can not be used any longer.
Right. That's another reason why you should take only disposable stuff across borders.
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#33Their point about how other countries will take the US's stance as a cue is somewhat scary. If you try and cross any border it will be relinquishing access to all accounts. I'm assuming email also comes along with 'social media', since communication is by its definition social. So how do you protect yourself? I think just going with "Don't have any social media" isn't a good answer because the relationship that child…
See this -^ ? It's a new pseudonymous account. Unless your social network has some kind of insane policy where they only allow you to have a single identity you can use that kind of feature to compartmentalize your activities.
Combine that with a phone that lets you have multiple users where you use one for banal activity which you can then show to Big Brother when he comes knocking. And others for anything important.
To me having several pseudonyms and also using throwaways is part of standard information hygiene. I also have multiple email addresses, some are set to forward to others (one-way of course), others aren't. I don't know why people aren't teaching that to their children.
I also love 4chan for that reason. I can talk to people in a totally ephemeral manner. Identity only exists for the duration of a conversation.
Or I don't know, do people also share their grindr adventures by linking that account to twitter these days?
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#34The former prime minister of Norway was recently detained at the border for previously having visited Iran. Think about that, prime minister of a NATO allied country. The border rules (even before Trump) are whack.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So how do you protect yourself? Wipe phone when you pass through border, restore afterwards. If you're really paranoid, if the device leaves your presence it's to be considered physically compromised.
Assuming you're going to a place with fast internet. If you're not, it can be a pain.
You can restore using iTunes backups stored on an encrypted hard drive in a secret volume. Plausible deniability even after decryption. TrueCrypt does this.
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#37Using detention as a tool to extort access from people is underhanded at best. Rifling through people's digital devices should not be acceptable.
Why doesn't Apple/Google/Microsoft/Facebook et al. coordinate with organizations like EFF or ACLU and throw their weight behind a campaign to stop this bullshit?
If not companies, there's still plenty of extremely wealthy individuals in SV that one would think might care.
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#38This happens in Canada too, unfortunately (was in the news quite a bit not too long ago, and can be seen in action on that reality TV show about border security). Best to wipe your phone, and not bring any sensitive documents across borders period.
Yes when i drive to canada as a us citizen canada has had me decrypt drives and enter email passwords etc.
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#39You're right about white males. Nothing ever happened to Aaron Hillel Swartz. Or is he a bit too dark for your taste?
Aaron Schwartz was skewered because he made political statements and took action the gov't didn't like while doing something illegal that may have hurt a multinational corporation.
Aaron Swartz
Re: A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone
#40> Since the phone was issued by NASA...
So it was already government property. I don't see the issue here.