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Nah , just backup and then wipe all your devices and then restore them after customs. (Kevin mitnick does this).
Or, perhaps he says that but has two passwords, one that decrypts and runs an OS and one that presents as if no OS is installed?
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> Any device that you lose physical control of during these encounters must be presumed to be compromised and should be physically destroyed afterwards. Seems unwise to destroy evidence. Find the rootkit, or have your employer or security researcher do so, prove it's existence, and sue the Government. But yes, definitely get a new laptop.
I don't think that will go anywhere. How do you prove the government did it and that it wasn't on there before the encounter?
It's way easier and less legally ambiguous to make people THINK you are rooting their devices than to actually do it and leave actual evidence to be found. They could even be looking for OTHER rootkits instead of installing them.
I suspect there's a lot of availability bias going on here as well - how many travelers go through the US per year versus how many of them are famous ex-CTOs that get reposted on HN?
This assumes that he was not picked by random but instead there is some sort of list of people to check at airports that you can be put on because of your work within IT-security. That would be a big story if that is the case. I will offer a counter-narrative which is more in line with my own experience (from other places than the US): The people who work at border control in particular in airports are bored. They ar…
she said it was absolutely not common (which i doubt very much) and she was concerned i was coming and going because i want to stay (?!?!?!).
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> Any device that you lose physical control of during these encounters must be presumed to be compromised and should be physically destroyed afterwards. Seems unwise to destroy evidence. Find the rootkit, or have your employer or security researcher do so, prove it's existence, and sue the Government. But yes, definitely get a new laptop.
I don't think that will go anywhere. How do you prove the government did it and that it wasn't on there before the encounter?
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Canada is not exactly welcoming to visitor. Particularly visitors that may have a mark on their background check from any number of years ago. Good luck getting in at all -- its becoming a common mention in hip hop lyrics even.
Americans who have concealed carry permits on their person when entering Canada will have their vehicle searched with a fine toothed comb.
since the RealID act was passed, and im too lazy to wait at the DMV for a compliant license, I just take my passport with me for ID on domestic flights. This once cost me 30 minutes with the TSA, again, explaining why I was using a passport for a domestic flight. I refused search, refused to cooperate, and was let on the plane.
security theater was fun 15 years ago but this shit show has gotten a little old. the oxycodone epidemic kills more americans than terrorism. Hell, lightning kills more americans than Al Qaeda.
shoes and belts off, shuffling through the checkpoints like juden at dachau, is degrading.
Quick reminder: US citizens have an absolute right to reenter the country. Customs can temporarily detain you, but they cannot refuse entry. Any threat, whether implied or stated, that they will hold you until you unlock your device is not real. They can hold your stuff indefinitely, so be prepared to lose it if you go this route, but never unlock your device based on the idea that it’s the only way to go free. Non-c…
> Customs can temporarily detain you, but they cannot refuse entry Legal / Official Source please.
Quick reminder: US citizens have an absolute right to reenter the country. Customs can temporarily detain you, but they cannot refuse entry. Any threat, whether implied or stated, that they will hold you until you unlock your device is not real. They can hold your stuff indefinitely, so be prepared to lose it if you go this route, but never unlock your device based on the idea that it’s the only way to go free. Non-c…
I am a US citizen. For many years I tried exercising this right while remaining silent. I’ve been kicked out of a border control point in northern Vermont in February in a snowstorm after a four hour interrogation. (They sent the bus without me.) I’ve been arrested and locked in a room for twelve hours with no food or water or medication. I’ve been endlessly harassed and interrogated on other entries even when not ex…
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Quick reminder: Non US citizens only go to conferences outside the US. There is no excuse we should put up with this. Canada and EU are much better locations for this reason alone.
In the past several years, I’ve entered 6 countries as a US citizen. Only Canada has demanded access to my phone.