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iPhone + Chromebook / other laptop, wipe everything to factory defaults before encountering customs. Use full disk encryption. Login to a cloud server that ha

iPhone + Chromebook / other laptop, wipe everything to factory defaults before encountering customs. Use full disk encryption. Login to a cloud server that has your backups / restores / setup scripts / data. Preferably encrypt those backups before you upload them to the cloud server. Only reason why I don't do it more frequently is it's a pain in the ass. I've been fairly impressed with iOS's backup restoration system recently. Only had to log in to a specific set of services for everything to be back to normal. This system is definitely a great way to test your backup restores! Also: Don't use email for any semblance of secure communications.

voltagex_ 8y ago
Do you always stay at places with high bandwidth available?
- woolvalley 8y ago
  No I don't, so I might be not doing a full restore. If I'm on vacation, I might only install a few apps and risk my vacation photos being snooped on by customs coming back. Or I might pre-download installer packages and if I'm very paranoid verify their hash values online later.
clubm8 8y ago
>Login to a cloud server that has your backups / restores / setup scripts / data. Preferably encrypt those backups before you upload them to the cloud server. >Only reason why I don't do it more frequently is it's a pain in the ass. I've been fairly impressed with iOS's backup restoration system recently. Interesting! My gripe is I haven't found a way to do a cloud backup of an iPhone w/o putting the data in iCloud, which I do not trust. I'd prefer to make my own backup which I store/pull down manually... is that possible? My assumption is that if a country is nosy enough to want access to a device, encryption is irrelevant since they'll just demand a PW, so ideally I'd like to wipe the device then pull a backup down later.
- woolvalley 8y ago
  You can do an encrypted backup of your iPhone via iTunes, archive it and then move it to whatever you want to. You can also put that backup inside some sort of encrypted container before you upload. You might feel like its redundant to 'double encrypt' your backup, but iOS wont back up a bunch of stuff if you don't encrypt the backup, so you should still do it. You can also use some sort of E2E backup software like arq or restic, dig through it's archives and download your iphone backup that way. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204215 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204215

voltagex_ 8y ago

Do you always stay at places with high bandwidth available?

woolvalley 8y ago
No I don't, so I might be not doing a full restore. If I'm on vacation, I might only install a few apps and risk my vacation photos being snooped on by customs coming back. Or I might pre-download installer packages and if I'm very paranoid verify their hash values online later.

clubm8 8y ago

>Login to a cloud server that has your backups / restores / setup scripts / data. Preferably encrypt those backups before you upload them to the cloud server. >Only reason why I don't do it more frequently is it's a pain in the ass. I've been fairly impressed with iOS's backup restoration system recently. Interesting! My gripe is I haven't found a way to do a cloud backup of an iPhone w/o putting the data in iCloud, which I do not trust. I'd prefer to make my own backup which I store/pull down manually... is that possible? My assumption is that if a country is nosy enough to want access to a device, encryption is irrelevant since they'll just demand a PW, so ideally I'd like to wipe the device then pull a backup down later.

woolvalley 8y ago
You can do an encrypted backup of your iPhone via iTunes, archive it and then move it to whatever you want to. You can also put that backup inside some sort of encrypted container before you upload. You might feel like its redundant to 'double encrypt' your backup, but iOS wont back up a bunch of stuff if you don't encrypt the backup, so you should still do it. You can also use some sort of E2E backup software like arq or restic, dig through it's archives and download your iphone backup that way. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204215 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204215