> US Customs officers didn’t even
> need to ask for his passwords —
> they were saved in their own
> system
US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff profile
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#12There needs to be some reasonable way to get your digital life into an E2E encrypted cloud, wipe your devices, fly into the police state you call home, and get setup again when you land. You can promise at the border that your head doesn't contain anything either. I get very worried about traveling with an object as alien and shiny as a Yubikey. I don't know how I'd explain it to an aneurism in a Kevlar vest without…
> wipe your devices But then you risk: > They said, ‘Next time you come through, don’t have a cleared phone,’
That and the bit about the bill that would increase CBP's power to detain and strip search Canadians entering the US were the two most troubling things in the article, IMO.
Re: US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff profile
#13This sounds incredibly embarassing, and even as a US citizen makes me fear travelling to America.
Re: US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff profile
#14There needs to be some reasonable way to get your digital life into an E2E encrypted cloud, wipe your devices, fly into the police state you call home, and get setup again when you land. You can promise at the border that your head doesn't contain anything either. I get very worried about traveling with an object as alien and shiny as a Yubikey. I don't know how I'd explain it to an aneurism in a Kevlar vest without…
> wipe your devices But then you risk: > They said, ‘Next time you come through, don’t have a cleared phone,’
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Re: US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff profile
#15There needs to be some reasonable way to get your digital life into an E2E encrypted cloud, wipe your devices, fly into the police state you call home, and get setup again when you land. You can promise at the border that your head doesn't contain anything either. I get very worried about traveling with an object as alien and shiny as a Yubikey. I don't know how I'd explain it to an aneurism in a Kevlar vest without…
> You can promise at the border that your head doesn't contain anything either.
That would look like a clumsy "I'm just like you" attempt at building personal rapport.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
> wipe your devices But then you risk: > They said, ‘Next time you come through, don’t have a cleared phone,’
That and the bit about the bill that would increase CBP's power to detain and strip search Canadians entering the US were the two most troubling things in the article, IMO.
Why Canadians?
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#17That's sad. I really want visit the US and see some national parks but the more I see stories like that the less I want to go. I hope it will be better in 5-6 years because I don't want to invent a plausible second life just to go through the border...
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#19I'd love to visit the United States, but this is just creepy. I don't even give my family passwords. Not worth visiting on my own dime if I'll just be turned back for refusing to comply.
Re: US Customs block Canadian man after reading his Scruff profile
#20There needs to be some reasonable way to get your digital life into an E2E encrypted cloud, wipe your devices, fly into the police state you call home, and get setup again when you land. You can promise at the border that your head doesn't contain anything either. I get very worried about traveling with an object as alien and shiny as a Yubikey. I don't know how I'd explain it to an aneurism in a Kevlar vest without…
> wipe your devices But then you risk: > They said, ‘Next time you come through, don’t have a cleared phone,’
Quite. Once you have such an E2E encrypted cloud, the next step is to simply not bring your device over the border, but rather buy/rent one in the country you arrived in and load your stuff on that one. The only problem is finding hardware you can sort of trust.