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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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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…

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

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Post by JadeNB »

skyrw wrote: post #284
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.

You are absolutely the worst kind of person.

> You are absolutely the worst kind of person.

What? I'm not sure I believe the grandparent's post, and it would be nice if it were sourced or clarified as opinion rather than stated as fact (as briandear (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14406689) and Banthum (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14407293) urged), but your reaction seems grossly hostile and unconstructive.

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

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Post by Banthum »

chronic940 wrote: post #202
Jare wrote: post #194

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If what is already happening across the country is not a good enough reason already, I doubt anything will be.

Yep. Quite simply, the 0.1% of the US population here on HN does not care about privacy nor protesting nor writing to their local or state government. HN needs to stop living in a bubble. Only 1/3 of the US even bothered voting in the Trump v Clinton presidential election. I'll let you think about that for a moment. Now think about border searches. Has your phone been searched? Neither has mine. I'll go back to my co…

Border guards were doing this stuff long before Trump was elected, and it was never a significant campaign issue one way or the other. Stop trying to make everything about Trump.

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

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Post by Banthum »

ForrestN wrote: post #279
rosser wrote: post #116

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Do you honestly think customs agents care whether you'll get fired or not? US immigrations will permanently sever families that have been together for years or even decades with utter disregard for the emotional trauma they're inflicting. Your job matters exactly fuck-all to a CPB agent.

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?

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

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Post by ajmurmann »

kbos87 wrote: post #175
kasey_junk wrote: post #150

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And to the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/14/campaign-gr...

It's amazing how disparate the experience is in Europe. The first time I flew to CDG a year ago I honestly thought I somehow skipped customs accidentally. Heathrow, on the other hand, feels like a dystopian experience straight out of Minority Report. 20 questions and having your photo taken at every turn for simply connecting through the UK.

I think the authoritarianism is a Anglo Saxon phenomenon. At least in more recent history.

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

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Post by throwaway26402 »

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?

Are... are you seriously doubting the racial profiling that happens at the hands of border agents? I'm genuinely curious. Do you know literally nothing about America's history or the current political climate?

I'll even help, since apparently Silicon Valley hasn't invented a $400 way to enter text into a search bar: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=US+border+patrol+racial+profiling

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

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Post by lacampbell »

petepete wrote: post #25

Is travelling with confidential data really necessary? Wouldn't it make more sense for me to have a 'empty' notebook and store my data out of harm's way (but accessible via a VPN).

What's to stop them just asking the password for your VPN? I mean if they can already ask for facebook passwords, what's the difference?

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Post by fencepost »

codeka wrote: post #197
ptaipale wrote: post #182

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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.

Potato/potahto, really. Good luck getting a visa next time if you've ever been "denied entry". 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.

Not bringing a laptop is probably not as suspicious as you'd expect, particularly given recent discussions of banning carry on laptops on flights from a large chunk of the world.
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