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Is a reasonable work around to ship your phone to your future destination?
by danesparza 10y ago
Is a reasonable work around to ship your phone to your future destination?
- Jdam 10y ago- make a cloud-backup - purge your phone - enter the US, let them search your plain vanilla phone - restore backup
- geggam 10y agobecause they dont search your cloud ?
- emodendroket 10y agoHow could they "search your cloud"? They're able to bypass the 4th Amendment protections because you are entering the country.
- Jonnax 10y agoThere was a recent article about a Canadian crossing into America being suspected of being a sex worker and forced to give their online user names and passwords. Which was stored and allowed them to not ask for the credentials the next time they crossed. Here's the link: http://www.dailyxtra.com/canada/news-and-ideas/news/us-customs-block-canadian-man-reading-scruff-profile-215531 http://www.dailyxtra.com/canada/news-and-ideas/news/us-custo...
- sunwooz 10y agoIf you got a full tutorial on this, I would love to read it ;)
- emodendroket 10y agoDo you really need a tutorial specifically on this? Backup, restore, and wiping your phone are all well-documented procedures.
- nraynaud 10y agosome people got denied entry with that tactic, too suspicious. The US intelligence agencies are hell bent on creating a social graph of the world, and they will get to do it.
- dingaling 10y agoTrying to defeat this with technical trickery won't work. "Gee golly gosh you're smart, on through you go" is not a standard CBP response. They will search your devices. They have a process flow to follow and 'empty contact list' will likely branch to 'second-tier inspection' and laptops will be searched. Much better to keep an old previous-generation smartphone with a minimal but genuine contact list ( immediate family, emergency contact, work & insurance numbers ) and a couple of useful non-social apps and use that when travelling. And only for travelling. No trickery, just hand it over. I don't agree with the policy, but it's policy. I can't change it as one foreign national standing in line, I can only minimise the damage it causes me.
- coldpie 10y agoMy plan is to just not travel with electronics. If I need it, I might pick up a cheapo Android tablet at my destination and just leave it there, but probably I'll just go old-school.
- emodendroket 10y agoBesides the tremendous inconvenience that would entail, how do you know it's not going to get inspected?
- danesparza 10y agoYou absolutely have no guarantees it won't be inspected. Especially since the US Post office appears to be logging all mail for federal authorities: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai...
- struppi 10y agoA friend of mine was questioned at an international airport because he traveled from Europe with only hand luggage (he was only staying for 2 days). So, i guess, not having something with (electronics, luggage, ...) you can also cause problems. But yeah, this is only one anectote, so travelling without a phone / a laptop might be fine...