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Ideally it would not be evident that the account is in travel mode.
by robbiemitchell 10y ago
Ideally it would not be evident that the account is in travel mode.
- 4ad 10y agoHow can it possible be non-evident?
- tptacek 10y agoA travel-locked Facebook account should just look like a quieter Facebook account.
- 4ad 10y agoSo, pretty evident from the most casual analysis.
- tptacek 10y agoI don't think any part of the proposal depends on it not being possible to detect whether an account is travel-locked, but I'm curious about why you think it's so straightforward to tell if an account is locked? Surely, if this became popular, CBP would simply start asking aliens seeking entry whether their accounts were travel locked. And the standard advice would be, "never lie to CBP". But I'm still curious about why you think this would be so obvious.
- deong 10y agoI think that would be difficult to achieve. If it's minimal enough to achieve the goal, it's minimal enough to look like travel mode. If the only goal is to refuse them access to your account, you can do that already. Your devices will be confiscated, non-citizens will be refused entry, but you can do it if your device encryption is strong enough. The goal here seems to be to give you the ability to get through the border without giving up your information. If it looks like "trip mode", it's failed at that goal, and I'm not sure it's possible to make it both mainstream and stealthy enough to work.