They can detain me indefinitely if they want, I will never give my pin to border security. I'm not going to bend to this bullshit by not carrying a phone.
I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're implying that people should behave in a manner that is a serious felony in the United States and likely other places.
Honest question: How is that a felony? I have multiple profiles on my home machine. Does that make me a felon?
I'm guessing it is under some blanket "intent to deceive border protection official" bullcrap.
Immigration has very broad powers, but even then this sort of case would be difficult to make IMHO.
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#64“Land of the free.”
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#65It would be nice if there were a feature built in to phones to facilitate this. Like, on the lock screen, an emergency wipe button that runs a procedure you specify (log you out of everything, obfuscate which services you subscribe to, etc) and this way as you're going through customs, you can gauge your risk and at any point you feel uncomfortable, you discreetly click your button before smoothly handing over your p…
This suggestion comes up in every single thread. Consider that when such an obvious gambit seems to exist you're almost certainly not the first person to have come up with it, and there's a reason it hasn't already taken off.
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#66My current plan is to wipe my phone before travel and restore it on destination. Nothing to unlock because there's no phone there.
Forcing you to restore your entire account is a whole 'nother level beyond simple forcing you to unlock your phone.
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#67They may choose to detain you anyway, and force you to give them passwords to various accounts manually. But there’s no easy way for them to know which services you use and which services you don’t use, or whether you have multiple accounts.
This would seem to imply lying, or at least deceiving, a federal agent. IANAL, but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
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#68Try 'I am a born in America citizen on american soil, I want to talk to my lawyer, no i'm not giving you my password. No I won't tell you why.'
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#69I had same strange situation a week ago when passing Ukraine border. Whats purpose of this?
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#70I had same strange situation a week ago when passing Ukraine border. Whats purpose of this?