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1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders

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Re: 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders

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Post by mikestew »

badminton1 wrote: post #252
mikestew wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At, say, the US/Canadian border? No, not accurate nor realistic at all.

This happened at a US port of entry https://www.cnet.com/news/researcher-detained-at-u-s-border-... He didn't get hit with a wrench, but rather got all his stuff seized by the FBI.

He didn't get hit with a wrench, but rather got all his stuff seized by the FBI.

I don't know if you've ever been hit with a wrench, but those two things are nothing alike. Starting with the fact that the FBI might not have gained access to the data in your story.

Re: 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders

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Post by sedatk »

lenocinor wrote: post #293
sedatk wrote: post #260

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Definitely not great. It would create much more suspicion to have 1Password installed and not to have any data on it. Just uninstall 1Password before travel and re install it back after customs. Travel mode is a way worse solution.

The article says you can choose which vaults to have available in Travel Mode. So you could just leave some vaults you don't care about in there.

Empty/useless vaults aren't any better. Even if you went to the lengths of creating fake social profiles and adding their passwords to your fake vault, that's not any better either.

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Post by brokenmachine »

avaer wrote: post #312

When the features start rolling out, the market entrenches the status quo. Props to 1Password though; this is a symptom and they are not the cause. I guess the reasonable next step, when all the outrage has fizzled, is pre-screening. Pay for the government to have all of your passwords all the time, and save yourself the hassle.

>I guess the reasonable next step, when all the outrage has fizzled, is pre-screening. Pay for the government to have all of your passwords all the time, and save yourself the hassle.

Lol, on what planet is that the "reasonable next step"?? Do they want to see my dick pics and login to my bank accounts as well? My poetry or whatever rambling I may write? Am I not entitled to any privacy at all?

The actual reasonable next step is not to go to, or deal with, the US at all.

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Post by thomasahle »

chx wrote: post #352

"May I search your laptop?" "Certainly." "But... this is practically empty." "Yes sir. I FedEx'd my SSD to the destination." I have a small SSD in the primary disk in my T420s, it has just enough to get me through the flight. I keep the primary in the UltraBay with a simple adapter, takes one reboot and no tools to put it back in place. Done. Happy searching! I can't log into anything even if I wanted to because I ph…

> I FedEx'd my SSD to the destination.

Are there any examples of laptops / ssds being searched in international mail?

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Post by jakelazaroff »

TallGuyShort wrote: post #305
ForrestN wrote: post #279

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It completely depends if you are white or not. If you are white, and speak politely, the agent will care deeply about your concerns, including potential firing as an example. If you are not white, and especially if you appear black, Latino or Arab, then your comment will definitely hold true.

Recently delayed by the TSA to the point of missing my turn to board. Was subjected to additional searching. Upon finding nothing, I discovered the extra searching was what they do when you fail the hand swab test. I had not had the test administered. So they administered the test. I passed. They then searched my things again and I was questioned regarding the quantity of business cards I was carrying. Oh also I'm wh…

Pretty sure parent was just saying that it's way more likely to happen to you if you're not white, not that 100% of white people will pass through unaccosted.

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Post by jakelazaroff »

Banthum wrote: post #344
ForrestN wrote: post #279

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It completely depends if you are white or not. If you are white, and speak politely, the agent will care deeply about your concerns, including potential firing as an example. If you are not white, and especially if you appear black, Latino or Arab, then your comment will definitely hold true.

Wow, quite an accusation! Is there any actual data source on this, or is it just a narrative you prefer?

Two seconds of Googling: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speakeasy/dangerous-precedent-why-...

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Post by jonknee »

thomasahle wrote: post #374
chx wrote: post #352

"May I search your laptop?" "Certainly." "But... this is practically empty." "Yes sir. I FedEx'd my SSD to the destination." I have a small SSD in the primary disk in my T420s, it has just enough to get me through the flight. I keep the primary in the UltraBay with a simple adapter, takes one reboot and no tools to put it back in place. Done. Happy searching! I can't log into anything even if I wanted to because I ph…

> I FedEx'd my SSD to the destination. Are there any examples of laptops / ssds being searched in international mail?

If you take the time to FedEx your SSD to avoid customs you certainly made sure the disk was encrypted...

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Post by caseysoftware »

Bakary wrote: post #270
caseysoftware wrote: post #141

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I opted out for years and made fun of TSA agents during the pat down. It turns out you're not allowed to requests pat downs from specific agents. Who knew? ;) But now I don't even opt out. Instead I tell them that I can't raise my arms above my head. They direct me around the scanner (sometimes the metal detector too), swab my hands, and call it done. I often skip 10-15 people in the process. If they ask why, I tell…

After you leave make sure you don't accidentally do a "yes!" arm in the air gesture!

One time I might have said "I can't raise my arms like this" :D

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Post by Avalyst »

kennywinker wrote: post #363
valuearb wrote: post #232

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If NASA engineers aren't allowed to refuse to unlock their work devices containing confidential NASA information, what hop is there for us?

There's always hop

Double IPA level of hop

Re: 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders

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Post by veidr »

was_boring wrote: post #369
veidr wrote: post #368

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It's a practical approach, and my comment here isn't necessarily aimed at you, chx (since I don't know your citizenship status), but I would add this entreaty to American citizens like me: If you ever get asked that question at the US border, please don't acquiesce to that request. They have the right to ask, and they even have the power to search it regardless of your permission, but despite an alarming drift toward…

Is the goal to resist normalization of the behavior or is to get through the security theater?

It depends. Sometimes, it's really important, and you have to make it through quicky even if that means sacrificing other principles.

You have to balance your civic duty as a citizen with whatever else is going on. But hopefully our default mode is to emphasize our responsibility as democratic citizens to lead by example, and to resist degenerate behavior whenever we can...

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