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Solution: Go through border control with blank phone/laptop and restore from backup later.
by t0ddbonzalez 7y ago
Solution: Go through border control with blank phone/laptop and restore from backup later.
- daliusd 7y agoThat's workaround - not solution.
- t0ddbonzalez 7y agoIt’s a solution if it allows you to get through border control without border guards inspecting your data or imaging your phone...
- cmurf 7y agoIs this what the EFF, ACLU, etc. actually recommend these days? Or do they want regular Joe Citizen to be willing to subject themselves to duress by customs? If most people erase their devices, it's a kind of giving up. Accepting data loss (hopefully temporarily, but not everything is stored in the cloud, e.g. SMS messages, at least in Android phones with the original texting app) is punative. And disproportionate. And resets are a PITA for non-technical people. As a work around to avoid being harassed, to me it proves we've lost the privacy fight.
- t0ddbonzalez 7y agoI don’t speak for the EFF or ACLU so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Speaking of disproportionate...I think it’s disproportionate to surrender my phone to DHS/ICE for unwarranted inspection in order to enter the country.
- sandebert 7y agoI was under the impression that going through with blank phone/laptop would in itself be considered suspicious. Is that not the case?