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> Do not lie to federal officers. Do not attract attention. Aren't those in conflict? If you want to not attract attention you want to lie an appropriate amoun
by glenra 10y ago
> Do not lie to federal officers. Do not attract attention.
Aren't those in conflict? If you want to not attract attention you want to lie an appropriate amount, like everyone else does. No more, no less.
For instance, pretending you respect the security personnel and don't mind obeying their idiotic rules.
Some of the responses given to other rules don't seem...responsive. For instance, somebody who travels with a freshly-reset phone to restore later certainly might get extra vetting as a result...but SO WHAT? Going through a secondary screening is MUCH BETTER than having to give up your actual data. Isn't it? Given a choice between NOT letting them get your data and LETTING them get it, in most cases NOT letting them have it seems FAR safer, for the exact same reasons that it's a bad idea to let the police search your home without a warrant. You don't know what they plan to DO with your data access, so you might want to prepare for the worst.
- averagewall 10y agoThe article is about foreigners. It's not just a choice between letting them get your data and not letting them get it. Not letting them could also mean being you turned away and never reliably be able to enter the US for the rest of your life. For most people, that's probably worse than having your device and Facebook accessed.
- cwyers 10y ago> For instance, somebody who travels with a freshly-reset phone to restore later certainly might get extra vetting as a result...but SO WHAT? Going through a secondary screening is MUCH BETTER than having to give up your actual data. Isn't it? That really depends on how resistant a factory reset is to forensic techniques, yes? If they can recover 40% of the data, but give it extra scrutiny, are you really safer than if they have 100% of the data but look at it cursorily?