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To all of you yanks, you should start rethinking your anthem, land of the free my ass
Never has been so long as conscription exists
It would be so easy for me to laugh this off and say, "duh just don't go to the third world country that is the USA," but anything they do will spread to other parts of the world.
Maybe wipe an old phone and just have signal to communicate with family until I cross the border? I wouldn't even mind paying a few bucks to make a new signal account without a phone number.
As a us citiczen I’m more and more looking at my phone as a hostile device. I have Graphene on one phone and an iPhone, but with how things are going these days who knows how secure these devices really are. Apple iOS is a black box. Android is not much better, and they’re now faster than laptops and most desktops. They can be running and recording and reporting anything and still sip battery life. I’ve since deleted social media apps outside of lemmy and HN. I use my little e-reader more than my phone. All my personal stuff is in encrypted cloud that is not iCloud, I don’t use biometrics to unlock it. But I still don’t trust it. I’m beginning to think carrying it in a foil bag until I need it is a good idea.
I agree, it's not a tool, it's a compromised and dangerous device and I have to carry it with me carefully. I have always turned off my location from time to time and carefully managed permissions, but nowadays here's what I do:
If I controlled the software on a deeper level, I would set it up to have a toggle where it will only connect to the cell network every 30-60 minutes. There is little in my life that is more important than a half hour response time, so why am I continuously broadcasting my triangulated location? I would have that toggle turned on 90% of the time.
Is this part of their tourism strategy?
I believe they are hunting tourist and working on the commercialization thereof.
Are those directing ICE also involved in human trafficking?
Are they involved in anything else?
I'd imagine that would be a pretty safe bet, but I'm not sure what you're referring to.
Remember to turn off all biometrics for unlocking your phone, if not now, then at least when traveling internationally. They can scan your face or your fingerprint without a warrant. But they can't compel you to provide potentially incriminating information including passwords, codes and patterns. Self-destruct codes will likely get you arrested for obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence though, so use those at your own risk. I wouldn't recommend it.
Best to never keep anything you wouldn't want a cop or fed seeing anywhere on your device. If you have any materials that you wish to keep private, store them elsewhere as much as possible. Either never store them on your device or regularly back them up somewhere secure and wipe your device clean. Make sure all remote access to those materials are behind secure encrypted password protected connections.
Remember, know the law so that you may follow it to its letter and no further. If you must comply, comply. If you can, don't comply. Know your rights and practice them. Never volunteer information to law enforcement even if you're innocent. You don't know what they know, what they are wanting to hear, what can be misunderstood, confused or contorted to put you into trouble. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday. Nobody will protect you but you.
I don't know how a self-destruct code will work, but if you have password A get into profile A, while password B gets you into a plausibly looking and normal profile B while profile A and password A get deleted, then you can claim your phone was always and ever the way profile B shows it. It doesn't look or feel "destroyed." It's just a normal profile with mundane messages, browsing history, contact list that makes sense, etc.
Good luck proving that anything fishy happened when the whole operation looks and feels like unlocking a normal phone.
You can even setup biometric login to be password B. So if someone gets into your phone with a fingerprint, which feels very normal, they see a normal boring and completely plausible profile.
There is absolutely a way to make phones secure if there is enough will.
That said, it's a political problem that's begging for a political rather than a tech solution.
Refusing to unlock your properly secured device for them will result in its confiscation and perhaps your detention.
Password managers and browser history are sticking points. You could not use your device for anything, but one of your services might rat you out.
You kinda need a travel phone.
How long until they're caught planting fake data on phones to arrest people they don't like though?
That kind of thing has been happening since the 90s.
Or just don't travel to North Korea, because we are talking about the fascist dictatorship of North Korea, right? No western democracy would do this.
traveling to actual north korea would likely be safer at this point
My pin is eleven digits, a number I'll never forget, and I enter it every time. No face ID for me.
Also, don't call the cops unless getting arrested is better than whatever is happening. Because, they'll use any excuse to arrest you no matter how innocent you think you are.
The Knight First Amendment Institute argued as amicus that searching expressive and associational content on phones demands a First Amendment warrant. The Second Circuit rejected that argument, holding that neither the Fourth nor the First Amendment carves out a special exemption for phones at the border.
Wow. Yeah... We all need shitty travel phones with very little on them now. That's fucking gross.
The Second Circuit rejected that argument, holding that neither the Fourth nor the First Amendment carves out a special exemption for phones at the border.
The second circuit used the right argument but somehow came to the wrong conclusion. The 4th carves out no special exemption, meaning you need a warrant.
Conservatives are pathological liars by nature. They re-define words to suit their immediate needs. Never trust a conservative. Never.
The Second Circuit rejected that argument, holding that neither the Fourth nor the First Amendment carves out a special exemption for phones at the border.
Could it be because the technology was still 250 fucking years away?
When traveling, carry a flip phone and a digital camera.
Got it.
Looks like it's time to carry a dummy phone with you if you decide to visit the US. Not really sure why any non-citizens would want to do that at this point though.
Interestingly, iOS 27 has a new “2 phones can share 1 number and you can swap between them” which didn’t seem to make a lot of sense.
This is what happens when you allow conservatives (fascists) to have control.
This is why it is your responsibility (duty) to do whatever is most likely to prevent that from happening.
The pic shows that tiny little guy with the big nazi coat. I thought the tiny little guy with the big nazi coat got fired.
Fuck ICE and fuck CBP.
Ok, so not entering the country i will.
The pile of reasons to not visit the USA grows daily.
Not if I never travel to that shithole country again.
This is nothing new. I don't agree with it but people are acting like this was rolled out yesterday. Unless we can reverse the supreme court ruling on it, nothing will prevent them from searching phones at airports or within 100 of borders.
