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`“My only defence is to regress to 1985 and travel without a single electronic device, depriving me of my ability to communicate, my livelihood and to even call
by xenospn 2y ago
`“My only defence is to regress to 1985 and travel without a single electronic device, depriving me of my ability to communicate, my livelihood and to even call my airline.”`
There’s an easier way. Just buy a device and keep it in Australia, and cross the border without a phone.
- zoklet-enjoyer 2y agoThis. He can upload his stuff to a server and download it after he crosses the border.
- xenospn 2y agoHappens automatically with iCloud.
- chatmasta 2y agoHow convenient, then the border force can just ask you to kindly hand over your iCloud password.
- zoklet-enjoyer 2y agoJust load up a phone with goatse pictures. That's not illegal, right?
- qingcharles 2y agoLOL. I'm imagining the entire phone's photo gallery just stuffed full of the most horribly offense material, but nothing that is technically illegal.
- jjgreen 2y ago... or for comedy effect, have a old Nokia brick phone just for travel to oppressive counties ...
- xenospn 2y agoGreat way to raise suspicion. Maybe buy an old android and fill it with random garbage that looks plausible.
- michaelt 2y agoMajor airports process 100,000 passengers per day. One-in-a-thousand occurrences happen hundreds of times per week. I don't imagine a person travelling without a phone would raise any eyebrows.
- __d 2y agoJust load it up with an emergency contact, your airline and flight details, the address and number of your (or any plausible) hotel, and that's it. If questioned, you can explain that you don't want to suffer the theft of private information, so you just travel without any. Do try avoid implying that they're the thieves you're most concerned about if you value your time. You need to travel without your laptop too, which is (for me, at least) much more trouble to replace at the destination. I tend to just carry a Chromebook or a fresh OS install with nothing private kept locally. It's a bit more awkward to get stuff done while I'm away (especially on the plane), but I can mostly use remote resources if I have to.
- globalnode 2y ago> travel to oppressive counties Thats pretty much all of them now.
- XajniN 2y agoIf we just look at traveling, not really, only the English speaking ones and partially Russia, for now. No one will ask you for your passwords when going to China or the North Korea.