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> The first digital security rule of traveling is to leave your usual personal devices at home. Go on your trip with “burner” travel devices instead. I thought
by AlbertCory 4y ago
> The first digital security rule of traveling is to leave your usual personal devices at home. Go on your trip with “burner” travel devices instead.
I thought it was just easier to do this for Israel. An Israeli company snail-mailed the phone to me before I left, and I mailed it back to them when I returned. You don't have to worry that the phone will work in that country.
It might be different if I were traveling on business or crossing a lot of borders.
I didn't do this, but I should have:
> Just as you shouldn’t bring your usual devices, you also shouldn’t bring your usual accounts. Make sure you’re logged out of any personal or work accounts which contain sensitive information. If you need to access particular services, use travel accounts you’ve created for your trip. Make sure the passwords to your travel accounts are different from the passwords to your regular accounts, and check if your password manager has a travel mode which lets you access only particular account credentials while traveling.
- jrochkind1 4y agoIsrael is definitely not typical, and is known to deny people entry more often than most countries (at least most "allied with the West", "free" countries), and also known to specifically ask for access to email and social media at the border sometimes. So that does seem like one to especially log out of any personal accounts for. But then... if they realize they don't have access to your usual personal accounts, they may deny you entry for THAT, so.... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/06/defending-privacy-israeli-border-information-travelers-carrying-digital-devices https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/06/defending-privacy-isra...
- AlbertCory 4y agoPossibly for some people. My phone wasn't even inspected. Physically at least /s