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Yet another reason never to sign up for Facebook.
A fun prank: Create realistic facebook profiles for people you hate, and send links to CBP right before they travel.
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If you're not a citizen, I think this is probably pretty simple: don't carry anything across the border that you would be uncomfortable being forced to unlock. There's nothing you can encrypt with a passphrase that is protected from a border search, unless you're comfortable being sent back home, losing your computer hardware, and not being allowed back to the US at least until the next Presidential administration, p…
Say you bring no electronic hardware. Could they make you login to your social media accounts from one of their computers?
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The words "inept CBP agent" get you in trouble here. If you're a citizen, by all means, play chicken! If not: remember, they have vastly more resources than you do. Money buys a lot of forensics techniques --- in fact, governments are better at computer forensics than software developers. They're the ones doing it all the time, and funding all the research. They don't have to decrypt. They just have to decide you're…
> They just have to decide you're suspicious enough to confiscate equipment and bar you from entry. That's fine with me. I don't take anything to a foreign country which I'm not willing to lose, and I have no problem turning around & heading back home if the country I wish to visit turns out to have unacceptable rules. If someday I visit someplace that has an implicit rule, 'all visitors must have Facebook accounts,'…
Worth remembering: US citizens can play chicken with CBP and lose nothing more than their computer/phone hardware (perhaps having it returned 6 months later). But non-citizens, possibly including LPRs, cannot: if an alien attempts to cross the border with a device they can't unlock "because they don't have the corresponding 2FA token with them" (as one friend suggested they do), they'll be detained, their devices con…
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--> The current best practice for border crossings --- really anywhere in the world --- is simply not to carry anything you're unwilling to unlock for Customs. How do password managers play into this? I'm likely going to be traveling to the US on business. I'll be bringing a travel phone rather than a normal phone (This is my standard travel practice for any country). I could do the same with a computer. I don't mind…
If you're not a citizen, I think this is probably pretty simple: don't carry anything across the border that you would be uncomfortable being forced to unlock. There's nothing you can encrypt with a passphrase that is protected from a border search, unless you're comfortable being sent back home, losing your computer hardware, and not being allowed back to the US at least until the next Presidential administration, p…
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> But searches incident to a border crossing have always been considered not "unreasonable," because inspecting the flow of things across the border has always been seen as a legitimate government function. ... > So searches of digital content are at least outside one of the key purposes of the border search exception. Yes. And also, who in their right mind would use a phone and an airline ticket to smuggle at most 3…
I feel obligated to point out that: 1. my phone has a 200GB microSD card in it right now 2. 256GB microSD cards are readily available 3. phones with two microSD cards are available 4. I can easily purchase a 4TB hard drive that is roughly the same size as a pack of cards It's not terribly relevant, but you're dramatically underestimating the volume of data that can be reasonably stored by media carried on one's perso…
link ? Genuinely curious ...
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You mean if you want to look like you have something to hide? Yeah, that might help...
But I do have something to hide. My personal information. This something I want to hide. Pretending like I'm an open book only encourages the bastards, no?
And what if my battery is dead or my phone stops working? Can they force me to log in to their own Android phone?
What if I don't carry any phone at all, can they simply force me to log in to an empty phone? (Assuming everyone has an Android or Apple phone or is going to spend couple days in detention.)
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I went to countries like Iran, which US considers 'evil', and encountered nothing but politeness and smiles all around the country, including customs. I've been to US once, and the amount of paranoia and customs arrogance even in 2004 was staggering. I would be perfectly OK to not visit that place anymore, ever. Fiancee is not aware of these things yet, and she keeps mentioning US as a nice place for honeymoon. Well…
They don't even let you into Iran without making you perjure yourself into pretending to be religious. "Atheist" or "none" is not an option on the form and is grounds for deportation or execution (if you're Iranian and renounce Islam). Iran's reputation for evil is well-deserved.