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Consider a Burner Phone for Your Holiday Travel This Year

• ColinWright 11mo ago
  Tech people have done this for years ... now it's hitting the "mainstream".
• joezydeco 11mo ago
  Who does it really fool? If you enter the USA with a candybar phone and the agent asks you to show them your social media feeds (because they know your name and have already cross-referenced that)... what do you do then?
  • bell-cot 11mo ago
    Nobody is fooled. If you had reason to suspect an unfriendly reception, then you should have avoided the USA entirely. The use case is discouraging low-effort/low-priority digging for information. Asking to see your feeds costs them zero. Digging in deeper or detaining you would consume actual time & effort.
    • joezydeco 11mo ago
      The default case, as I see it, is that you're refused entry and it's up to you and your airline to get you back home. Takes almost no effort on their part.
      • bell-cot 11mo ago
        Perhaps. But giving 'em your real phone & socials gives 'em 100X the easy excuses to do that.
  • blinded 11mo ago
    If I'm ever asked to do this I physically can't nor would I subject myself to that search. I don't know the password, I don't travel with my yubikey, and my mobile devices don't have 1password installed. So there is no getting into my accounts.