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The right solution to this problem is, when traveling, always answer "no" to "may I search your laptop?" It sucks, and it many mean a lot of hassle ranging from confiscated equipment to being held at the border to being refused entry, but this is just one of the new risks of travel. Border security only gets away with this because people say yes. Companies need to make clear to their employees (and the public) that s…
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Can't they order you to sign into iCloud or equivalent and then just sync whatever they want, photos, texts, emails, apps (and then order you to sign into those apps like Facebook, Whatsapp, Gmail)? Bottom line is they can get you AND everything you have access to. And it you try to circumvent it by i.e. temporarily encrypting everything for 24hr boom you just committed a felony. This is my understanding at least.
IANAL and I don't have an answer to this, but I would be deeply alarmed if this were the case. I can understand them making the case that anything on your personal is searchable (though I disagree that this should be allowed). By asking you to sign in and sync, they're not just requesting access to information on your person -- that's an enormous expansion of their search powers.
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The right solution to this problem is, when traveling, always answer "no" to "may I search your laptop?" It sucks, and it many mean a lot of hassle ranging from confiscated equipment to being held at the border to being refused entry, but this is just one of the new risks of travel. Border security only gets away with this because people say yes. Companies need to make clear to their employees (and the public) that s…
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> the policy will change. The policy might change to include cells at the borders where people are detained until they hand over login details or voluntarily decide not to enter.
Should the slope become that slippery we'll have a much better reason to stand outside a legislator's office with pointy sticks than "I was mildly inconvenienced by the TSA."
The right solution to this problem is, when traveling, always answer "no" to "may I search your laptop?" It sucks, and it many mean a lot of hassle ranging from confiscated equipment to being held at the border to being refused entry, but this is just one of the new risks of travel. Border security only gets away with this because people say yes. Companies need to make clear to their employees (and the public) that s…
A better solution is to not allow people to travel with anything that would be catastrophic if lost. My former employer would give employees loaner devices for travel to certain countries.
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> Can the border patrol ask you to sign into any online service? If you're a non-citizen attempting to enter the US under a visa waiver program, from certain countries, yes, they can.
a border officer searched for me on fucking facebook when i was going into the us in march. she said "i just want to know who you are and why you are coming". i don't have a facebook account. she said this was really suspicious. oh and she also found suspicious that i had two us entry stamps within a week of each other and didn't accept my explanation that i had gone through the us to go to england with my wife (even…
I bet they'll mark you as suspicious if you travel without any electronics too, because that has become uncommon.
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> always answer "no" to "may I search your laptop?" in my case, that would mean deportation due to not being american. i either get deported and lose all the traveling plans or i get searched.
I think in this case the correct technical term is "denied entry". You haven't passed immigration to the country. Deportation is the expulsion of someone who's actually in the country, past the border, and resident or visiting.
Really, for non-Americans the best advice is just don't go in the first place. Second best advice is just comply with border security personnel.
Any tricks like leaving the battery empty, bringing a burner, not bringing a laptop and getting a loaner when you get there etc, they do nothing but raise suspicions.
It's a clever idea, but how long before border authorities simply order travelers to log on to 1Password and turn off travel mode, or be denied entry? I'm guessing not very.
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And I could argue that my intent was to protect myself from identity theft, should my device be stolen. It's a reasonable explanation for having deleted the data. I'd also argue that I could've purchased a completely new device immediately prior to travel and brought that along, with the intention of being able to say that the device had never contained information that I was trying to hide. I think that part of the…
> [proving intent is] essentially impossible if you have a device that never contained sensitive data in any form. I'd like to see a short story based on this premise: man is arrested and tried for crossing the border with a brand new phone, having left his usual phone at home. The prosecution argues that since he presumably usually keeps sensitive information on his phone, not copying that data to the phone he was c…
One thing that I have always thought about is why Emails doesn't have disposable passwords. For example, you make 1 new password that you can use just one time. That way if you need to use unsafe PC from a hostel, you can log in with that password.
Or why we have passwords at all. Sites like Medium have moved to a passwordless model, where you're sent a login link to access your account rather than forcing you to remember or retrieve a password. https://blog.medium.com/signing-in-to-medium-by-email-aacc21...
I'm sorry, what in the world is Medium thinking? This is a step backwards from a user/password model.