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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

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Post by draugadrotten »

Jonnax wrote: post #10

Their 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…

> So how do you protect yourself?

It is time for all cloud services to provide plausible deniability by allowing for multiple passwords to access the same social account - but where all the passwords except the One allows for only a subset of the account.

E.g. logon to Facebook using password 'plausible1' and see only friend 1 and friend 2. Logon to facebook using password 'everything' and see friend 1 and 2 but friend 3 as well.

Re: A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone

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Post by izacus »

RealGeek wrote: post #50
Jonnax wrote: post #10

Their 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…

How about if we reset and delete everything from the phone before crossing any international borders?

That would mark you as suspicious (Who doesn't have anything on their phone?) and give you a person of interest treatment.

Re: A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone

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Post by bitwizzle »

Now is the time for vendors to consider implementing a duress password. Upon entering your duress password the user is presented with a fake profile, or perhaps everything could just be wiped. I'm not sure how well this would play out in the real world, but it's one of the best things protections I could imagine if you want to carry sensitive data across borders.

Re: A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone

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Post by [deleted] »

aaron-lebo wrote: post #82
jackmott wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sorry, we will keep making that leap as long as the crazy person osnpresident because we all worry some approximation of that could happen now.

If you can provide any evidence that Trump is looking to commit genocide, most people would be happy to know.

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Re: A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone

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Post by tr1ck5t3r »

sah2ed wrote: post #56
EGreg wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can restore using iTunes backups stored on an encrypted hard drive in a secret volume. Plausible deniability even after decryption. TrueCrypt does this.

Be sure that as such powers increase they'll obtain more sophisticated tools to help them catch smart alecks. There's also the possibility of seizure -- not getting your encrypted hard drive back because you refused to co-operate.

How do you know your drive is encrypted? Did you write the program and check the algorithms out manually, or was part of your brainwashing "education" designed to get you used to sitting in a stress position for most of your adult life whilst obediently trusting everything that YOU want to believe, when in reality you are kidding yourself and lying to yourself, just like parents tell lies to their kids so they don't worry?

Its amazing what coping mechanisms people make up to handle the brutal realities of life.

Heres another example of Fake News or is it? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-hel...

Re: A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone

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Post by ProblemFactory »

RealGeek wrote: post #50
Jonnax wrote: post #10

Their 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…

How about if we reset and delete everything from the phone before crossing any international borders?

That looks suspicious. Unless you are coming home to your own country, looking suspicious is a good way to get denied entry.

Re: A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone

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Post by tobltobs »

aaron-lebo wrote: post #82
jackmott wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sorry, we will keep making that leap as long as the crazy person osnpresident because we all worry some approximation of that could happen now.

If you can provide any evidence that Trump is looking to commit genocide, most people would be happy to know.

"Somebody hits us within ISIS — you wouldn`t fight back with a nuke?"

Re: A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone

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Post by poopsintub »

civilian wrote: post #80
vidarh wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is bizarre that we're now having to consider the type of preparation you previously would want to consider for places like China. I'm really not sure if I want to visit the US at all while Trump is in power. Not because I expect the chances of any severe problems are all that huge, but because the growing lack of predictability is just creating sufficient friction.

We've been searching phones at the US border long before Trump: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/11/30... You are right to be outraged, but you are wrong to be fearful of Trump. You need to be fearful and angry at the government, regardless of who's the President.

We should definitely be fearful of Trump. The only good thing that can come from this is that he will take full blame, but people will finally realize how corrupt we have become. I doubt that will happen though, because I'm sure the other half is brainwashed to think the Democrats can do no harm either.

Re: A US-born NASA scientist was detained at the border until he unlocked his phone

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Post by AJ007 »

mindslight wrote: post #13

Especially with a USG-owned device, this seems like it would have been a ripe time to assert one's citizenship for entry and just let them steal the device. The last time I traveled internationally, I purposely brought only an old laptop. To return, I zeroed the hard drive and physically removed it from the machine so the scum would have pretext to steal less of my property. For my preparation I was rewarded with abs…

Which government agencies can detain agents of other government agencies?
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