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> 6. Cross border Worst possible advice. Actually: 6. get in trouble and be detained for interrogation at border 7. Miss your flight / be added to suspect l
by bigbugbag 9y ago
> 6. Cross border
Worst possible advice.
Actually:
6. get in trouble and be detained for interrogation at border
7. Miss your flight / be added to suspect list / have your electronics confiscated / be denied entry / be sent to US prisons for an indefinite period of time without charge
You can choose more than one option for 7.
I had my phone inspected by border agent who found highly suspicious that I had no text messages stored in there, then asked me to enter the password to decrypt my messaging app then proceeded to go through the messages. I ended up entering the country because I knew of this possible scenario and had planted messages in there just in case. I know it worked because when given my phone back it was still open on the very message planted for the purpose of convincing the agent.
Also I mask my actual account on my laptop and create another with enough activity in it to pass for a real one.
I'm not going back to the US anymore in my lifetime.
- askvictor 9y agoI can see a business opportunity for 'fake but believable device activity as a service'
- bobwaycott 9y agoI would really love to know more about how you do this message-planting and faux user activity stuff.
- majewsky 9y agoWhat about this alternative plan? 1. Leave phone at home How do they react to someone not carrying a phone at all?
- tushar-r 9y agoWith suspicion. Why are you not carrying a phone? :-)
- majewsky 9y agoNot quite related, but I'm actually thinking of getting rid of my phone for most of the day (by leaving it at home) because it just distracts me all the time.
- pdimitar 9y agoAlso not quite related but that's hardly the fault of a mindless piece of a mix of chemicals. It's you that lacks discipline. :P