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Instead of a factory-reset decoy phone or tablet, bring a lightly used decoy with enough fakeish stuff on it that it looks legit on casual inspection. Keep you
by ardy42 8y ago
Instead of a factory-reset decoy phone or tablet, bring a lightly used decoy with enough fakeish stuff on it that it looks legit on casual inspection. Keep your real phone powered off, deeper in your luggage. No need to go though all that nonsense with hidden SD cards.
Be compliant with the border control people and offer up your decoy without complaint. You win if they don't search your stuff at all, and you win if they're satisfied with your faux compliance with the decoy. You only need to start to resist and demand your rights once they've shown an unusual interest in you and thoroughly search your stuff, but if they're doing that they probably had it in for you anyway.
- plaidfuji 8y agoIt seems like the risk that they would discover both phones is not worth the reward of hiding the content on your everyday phone. I agree in principal that you shouldn’t be compelled to unlock your phone at the border, especially on the way out, and I hope that we can change our laws to fix that. But as a traveler who just wants to get on my plane, I’m gonna swallow my pride and let them dig through my chat history or whatever, rather than risk them finding that I have a decoy phone, which basically guarantees I’m spending the night in some extralegal black site.