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What if the agent forces you to give them the password for "untravel mode", which restores data to your phone from the cloud?
by vatotemking 10y ago
What if the agent forces you to give them the password for "untravel mode", which restores data to your phone from the cloud?
- jazoom 10y agoGood point
- khedoros1 10y agoWhat if doing so requires a key stored on a computer at home? Or if the system has a duress password that restores plausible-seeming crap? Or if you did just factory-wipe it with no cloud-based backup? You can keep going back and forth with "what if" scenarios, but I'm not sure what the point would be.
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- vatotemking 10y ago> What if doing so requires a key stored on a computer at home? Or if the system has a duress password that restores plausible-seeming crap? All that sounds like a UX nightmare. The point is its all moot solving this at a technological level.
- khedoros1 10y ago> All that sounds like a UX nightmare. It does, but that wasn't the point I was trying to make. > The point is its all moot solving this at a technological level. If I'm reading that right, it's closer to what I was thinking when I wrote my comment. We can come up with a bunch of clever solutions, someone else can shoot them down with plausible scenarios, but regardless, some asshole at the border can still say "I don't believe your phone's blank, and I don't believe you don't have a Twitter/Facebook/etc account. So, you'll need to restore your phone and give us your social media passwords to get out of here"
- admax88q 10y ago"untravel mode" wouldn't be an option on the phone. Once you get home and want to untravel, you plug your phone in to your desktop and sign in to a cloud service that "untravels" your phone, restoring to the state it was in.