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How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by joe_mamba »

nine_k wrote: post #41

The usual fare: log out, disable biometrics, use long pins and passwords, power off. Prefer a burner device, or clean your device and restore when you arrive. I remember how Google's internal guidelines for travel circa 2011 required to remove any material under NDA from your laptop when traveling to China or Russia; you had to restore it over the VPN after a safe arrival. Funny that now the same precautions apply to…

>you had to restore it over the VPN after a safe arrival

How do you restore it via VPN? Don't you first need a workable OS to connect to VPN first?

Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by smarf »

ishouldstayaway wrote: post #20
Ekaros wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only go to good parts. Like Mexico and South America in general.

In English, "America" means the USA specifically. But you knew that already and decided to just post bait.

or, perhaps, they are wryly pushing back against the USA capturing a generic geographic term for themselves

Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by virissimo »

Aurornis wrote: post #37
comrade1234 wrote: post #22

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement have already started targeting travelers, with agents in plain clothes forcefully detaining a mother in front of her young daughter at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday after a tip from the Transportation Security Administration." I don't think the tsa is at sfo. They use a private contractor for tsa functions. Is the quote made-up?

The part you quoted isn’t about TSA. TSA and ICE are not the same.

The quote literally contains the string "Transportation Security Administration" in it.

Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by hedora »

next_xibalba wrote: post #8
righthand wrote: post #3

Burner phones for all! Defund, disband, destroy DHS, ICE, CBP, TSA.

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None of those organizations do anything to help regular people. They're all just creeping tentacles of fascism. (Most of them either didn't exist in the 1990s, or are unrecognizable now.)

If they were defunded, we could spend the money on fire departments (how many cities has the US lost in the last few years to forest fires, and how many cities to immigrants?), local police (to prosecute property and white collar crimes, and even government / police corruption), and mental health care (to reduce or even eliminate mass shootings - this worked in the US in the past, and works in every other country on earth right now).

Also, "social safety net" refers to things like social security, disability, not illegal deportations of non-criminals or what ever those organizations are focused on these days. The actual social safety net is on teetering on the edge of collapse because it's funding was stolen from the organizations you are defending.

Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by f1shy »

joe_mamba wrote: post #51
nine_k wrote: post #41

The usual fare: log out, disable biometrics, use long pins and passwords, power off. Prefer a burner device, or clean your device and restore when you arrive. I remember how Google's internal guidelines for travel circa 2011 required to remove any material under NDA from your laptop when traveling to China or Russia; you had to restore it over the VPN after a safe arrival. Funny that now the same precautions apply to…

>you had to restore it over the VPN after a safe arrival How do you restore it via VPN? Don't you first need a workable OS to connect to VPN first?

“Remove material under NDA” not format blank the computer.

Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by cdrnsf »

next_xibalba wrote: post #8
righthand wrote: post #3

Burner phones for all! Defund, disband, destroy DHS, ICE, CBP, TSA.

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ICE is a relatively new creation and DHS itself is a massive organizational Frankenstein's monster. Both can and should be dissolved.

Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by hedora »

hypeatei wrote: post #19
crimsoneer wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Disbanding draconion intelligence apparatus that didn't exist before 2001 would not mean we're back to living in caves.

It would mean we'd have the right to live in caves without presenting papers though.

Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by mindslight »

4MOAisgoodenuf wrote: post #31
crimsoneer wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Do you not remember life before ICE and TSA or are you not old enough to legally rent a car?

Your assertion of age is way off. Most people are going to be well into adulthood by the time they've flown enough to perceive the "security" process as its own thing.

Re: How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports

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Post by shimman »

calderarrow wrote: post #28
ishouldstayaway wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In English, "America" means the USA specifically. But you knew that already and decided to just post bait.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

Seems too subjective. I don't think it'll take off.
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