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Pair Locking Your iPhone

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Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone

#141
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If you want to keep your phone secure, enable a long passcode, turn on full device encryption, and turn it off. If you are a US citizen, you can't be turned away at the border or forced to unlock the device. If you're not a US citizen or don't want to be harrassed by customs, bring a burner phone. Tools like Cellebrite can and do take advantage of security vulnerabilities. Turning off pair locking lulls users into a…

As I just learned: Android limits password lengths to 16 characters, so you can't use passphrases.

Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone

#142
post #44

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Attempting to deceive CBP through hidden volumes and the like is not recommended. https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017

It's worse than that in some cases. I used to work for a big 4 consulting firm and they had some horror stories about border device searches. The company policy for travel outside the EU was simple... Your own laptop would go into a server room and become a remote desktop host, you'd be given a blank laptop. When you got to your destination safely you'd call up IT who'd tell you where to download the VPN software and…

Why did the big 4 consulting firm think that it was so important to hide the laptop data from the government during the border search?

Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone

#143

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For me as a European "gun laws were pretty restrictive in UK" for me means freedom more than access to guns does. I quite value the freedom of not having to worry about guns.

That's a very convoluted definition of freedom. I think there are many other things to call that ("sensible" or "sane" come to mind...) but it's objectively less free, legally/on paper as I stated.

By that definition any law stands in the way of freedom. You're not allowed to kill people in the US, so would it be a more free country if that law was not in place?

From my cultural upbringing having regulation in place to steer society does not stand at odds with freedom. And that's also by my cultural background not "convoluted".

Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone

#144
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Can you give a few examples of ways in which a US citizen is more free than I, a UK citizen, am?

You can’t leave Europe, despite your voters voting twice for it, making the Brexit party the #1, and yet your establishment understood “Leave” as “Stay” and refuses to hold a general election because they know they are illegitimate and hold on to their power?

First of all is the EU not Europe, secondly the UK can leave it. They just are not capable of politically surviving the consequences of leaving it. Countries in the EU can leave the EU a right that states in the US currently do not have about leaving the USA if they so desired.

Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone

#145
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land of the so-called free.

It's still, at least on paper, freer than many/most other Western countries in most ways AFAIK. I agree that this is a very absurd counterexample, however.

That would really depend on how you define freedom, if you look at it theoratically like "free to do whatever you want". Then maybe, if you look at it from the perspective of "an individual can garner freedoms through work" they are far more likely to do that in most other western countries.

You are far more likely to not have to worry about things like healthcare in european countries than you are in the US for example. You are far less likely to have to work multiple jobs to sustain your life. 'Class'mobility is far is better in most other western countries as well.

So if your definition is "free to do whatever", this also means other people and corporations are free to screw you over. And you would be right that in that regard the USA is freer than other western countries, but it infringes upon personal freedom, and in my opinion, that is the kind of freedom the USA gneerally says they're all about.

Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone

#146

Securing a single phone is a half measure at best, and your phone might get seized. Also, CBP, TSA and colleagues will do what they can to fuck you extra hard when sensing resistance to their ramming their noses up your cavities. The only true remedy is to get the US back on track with being a democracy and respecting the Constitution again.

Is simply crossing a border a "reasonable" search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment? Is there a legal precedent for that?

No need for a warrant. So pretty much anyone or anything that is in line to cross a border is automatically fair game. I'm sure there's case law on this. For example suspicionless DUI checkpoints have been ruled legal because the supreme court views it as a minimum intrusion and for the greater good. So wouldn't surprise me if similar grounds are used in the border case.

However some state courts have said DUI checkpoints are illegal under state constitutions. For example in Texas, however Texas has border patrol checkpoints. Never knew of that from being from the midwest, but I follow some full time RV vloggers on YouTube and learned about them. It surprised me, since not leaving or entering the country so never expected that traveling within your own country. Within 100 miles of the Mexican border, both permanent and temporary. Then recently in the last several years they do them now for the northern Canadian border too. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont but temporary for a few days a year. Some people live and work near them so they have to go through a checkpoint every single day, and traffic backups too. So annoying for the local residents, and also might discourage some tourism too, hurting their local small businesses like restaurants.

They are supposed to be checking for immigration status, but even looking for other things such as drugs. Even though drug checkpoints in themselves were ruled to not be legal. Since weed is legal in California, federally it's still illegal. So if you drove across California with weed, you could still get in trouble. There's some videos of people challenging them and refuse to answer if they are a citizen. Even border agents claim their dogs can smell if someone is an illegal or not too. So I guess illegals and citizens suddenly have a different scent.

They also board buses and trains such as Greyhound and Amtrak going seat to seat asking people of their status. The ACLU has been asking Greyhound to stop allowing them to do this since the buses are considered private property, but there's also arguments since they are commercial they are subject to different laws. https://youtu.be/0SxHkFZV4fw here's an example of one before getting on a bus or train at the station. here's one in Florida https://youtu.be/U62XSk8uQtU

Phoenix on a metro bus. https://youtu.be/XgQVrBGlqx8

Spokane, WA City Council had a issue with it too. https://youtu.be/xHKk8oZLA1s and https://youtu.be/GjbLJqvZVDo - They get on the bus and go seat to seat asking asking what country they are a citizen of and where they are going... You don't have to answer but cases where they have taken people off the bus and can make you miss it. Pretty sad traveling within the same country or even city. I think they should keep border security at the border and secure the border itself.

Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone

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Wouldn’t it be safer to: 1) Backup phone then reset to factory before flying 2) Restore once through customs.

Have you tried to restore your phone? Especially while on LTE/3G or hotel WiFi? It's an absolute pain in the ass, takes a couple of hours, not to mention you have to set up Apple Pay again. Deal with 2FA changes because you can't back up Google Authenticator.

I did it each time I got new iPhone before "transfer data to the new device" was available. No issues.

Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone

#150
Using an additional burner phone won't cost much and it's probably better than relying on a second device for unlocking your phone, or wiping your phone and restoring it when you arrive, because it's less time consuming and won't raise as much suspicion. I've heard of people shipping their phone to the destination before they fly but I'd be concerned if it gets lost or tampered with.
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