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Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone

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Post by sneak »

grecy wrote: post #210
Keverw wrote: post #119

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Interesting. Wonder if they target you for some reason? but I think some questions are just following a script, so it might seem invasive but they do this all day. My dream is if ever got rich from tech or won the lottery, is to travel full time. By plane, train, cruise ship and then buy an RV to explore more of the US. I think RVs are super cool but feel they are a bit outdated compared to modern cars. So hoping by…

> My dream is if ever got rich from tech or won the lottery, is to travel full time.....But I feel like living an alternative lifestyle would subject me to harassment at some point I quit my job and spent 2 years driving from AK to Argentina, then again to spend 3 years driving around Africa. I'm now a full-time nomad, and doing everything I can to never sit at a desk again (freelance writing, photography, published…

> When I drove into the US on my way to Argentina it was obvious the officer simply didn't believe I was going to drive into Mexico. Even with the map on my hood

I'm going to go with the fact that you're a white guy with dreads that made the border guards want to give you additional scrutiny. It had nothing to do with your story or vehicle.

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Post by rmcpherson »

jeroenhd wrote: post #113
sombremesa wrote: post #104

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So does it extend 100 miles from airports?

Yes, but only the international ones. About 65% of the US population lives in such a zone according to this article: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/who-lives-in-border-p...

The linked article does not show it extending 100 miles from international airports. Nor does the text say that.

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Post by jeroenhd »

rmcpherson wrote: post #292
jeroenhd wrote: post #113

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Yes, but only the international ones. About 65% of the US population lives in such a zone according to this article: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/who-lives-in-border-p...

The linked article does not show it extending 100 miles from international airports. Nor does the text say that.

I don't know the scale of the US so I thought it was 100 miles. I got the 100 mile number from here: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone

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Post by x220 »

geggam wrote: post #180
x220 wrote: post #40

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Americans have freedom on paper but they don't have any freedoms that matter. They have "freedom of speech" in the technical sense, but that freedom goes away once they get an audience that matters.

I wonder if the folks who downvote this have traveled much ? BTW you have to exercise that free speech in the specified zone. Cant be out there talking all willy nilly

The same Americans who talk about how Europeans don't have "real freedom of speech" get mad when their favorite political commentator gets censored on Youtube or Facebook or get mad when a riot keeps them from seeing someone give a speech. The end result is that Americans don't have real freedom of speech.

Re: Pair Locking Your iPhone

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Post by ixtli »

m0zg wrote: post #25
ixtli wrote: post #22

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As a US citizen i would only expect someone to force me to unlock my phone at a US port of entry, not when leaving. And yeah i'm willing to waste their time on my way back from the trip if they try to waste mine.

That only works if you don't have a connecting flight to catch. If you do, your willingness to waste time might plunge considerably. That's what they count on.

Yeah that’s why I said port of entry. I meant that this is fine for me if I’m exiting the airport.

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Post by trhway »

DoubleGlazing wrote: post #101
noident wrote: 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…

> border agents demand you go through the above process and log in to the VPN and then remote in to your own laptop

empty laptop or no, that brings up a general issue - border agent asks you to VPN into your corp network and to give them access into it (which beside a slew of corporate policies may also violate a bunch of laws like GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, EPA Clean Water and PCI compliance, etc - IANAL, so who knows what laws can be violated, all those corporate compliance and business conducts emails are so scary). Me being a little guy doing as i told/ordered to by the ones with authority, I'd just call corp IT security, some bozo high up the chain, and let them do their job - sort it out and make the decision. Sucks though for small companies without that fat and important corp IT security and all those C[compliance|information|customer privacy|security|sustainability|etc.]Os around.

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Post by palunon »

Keverw wrote: post #128
kyboren wrote: post #112

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I also have first hand experience as a US citizen refusing to answer any questions each of the ~couple dozen times in the past half decade or so I have crossed the US border. In my experience, not only should you decline to answer any questions, you should demand to have an attorney present for any questioning. This should end the interrogation fishing expedition, though in my experience you need to repeat yourself 3…

Yeah, good point on suing, I know I've heard suing the feds is a whole other ordeal than suing states or political subdivisions such as cities under the state. For the states/cities, it's a section 1983 lawsuit, while the feds they refer to it as a Bivens action. Sadly though people can't afford that, but I know some lawyers will take a cut if you win.... but some lawyers don't even want to help because they want to…

> some they can lie to you but you can't lie to them

Isn't lying to a federal agent a criminal offense in the US?

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

kccqzy wrote: post #36

An alternative: make a full backup of your phone, then restore your phone with a different backup with less personal information, and then once you cross the border you restore your phone using the first backup.

There is no official way to manage Apple iPhone and iPad backups - iCloud only seems to keep 1 backup at a time, and iTunes on a PC also doesn’t give you any controls - you need to manually manage the files yourself and may end up with a corrupted or unrestorable backup.

Now, I disregard Apple’s backups (if there’s no point-in-time recovery or named backups, then it isn’t a backup system!) and use my own self-hosted (Synology) or third-party (Office OneDrive for Business) means for storing files on my phone. As for app-specific data, and PIM, thats all either inconsequential if lost (e.g. save games) or synced anyway (Office 365 Exchange).

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Post by woutr_be »

kd913 wrote: post #200
woutr_be wrote: post #185

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If this was an independent review I would take it more serious, but it comes from authy directly. Serious question tho, can Authy be used on any website that supports Google Authenticator?

There is also microsoft authenticator which supports the same things as Google Authenticator. They just added a backup to onedrive feature too.

Do they support any other backup options? I have no interest in signing up for yet another account, just for one specific app.

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Post by Keverw »

palunon wrote: post #297
Keverw wrote: post #128

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Yeah, good point on suing, I know I've heard suing the feds is a whole other ordeal than suing states or political subdivisions such as cities under the state. For the states/cities, it's a section 1983 lawsuit, while the feds they refer to it as a Bivens action. Sadly though people can't afford that, but I know some lawyers will take a cut if you win.... but some lawyers don't even want to help because they want to…

> some they can lie to you but you can't lie to them Isn't lying to a federal agent a criminal offense in the US?

Same with lying to police. Talking about them lying to you, but you can't lie to them. It's a tactic used to lie to people to try to get them to speak more, etc.
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