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what to do with your phone on nternational travel? (leminal.space)

submitted 1 week ago by xorollo@leminal.space to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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We all read about the attempts to charge a US Citizen for destruction of evidence for using the distress pin on his GOS phone. So what is safe to do if you know you will be traveling internationally? Are people getting a burner phone and leaving their normal phone at home? What's to stop you from saying you dont have a phone if you are stopped at a border crossing?

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[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Valid advice. But the fact that you wrote all this out is sad. Sad for this land that used to be the land of the free.

[–] trilobite@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

I'm starting to believe that governments are the expression of their people. And this applies to every country including mine. Fortunatly, in the west, we still have elections. Lets see what Americans will do at Midterm in Novembre. Americans are those that voted for Trump a second time despite what happened at Capitol Hill. It feels to me that you have lost your bearings of what democracy means. You are the country that is allowing big tech to flourish in the name of capitalism. I used to have respect for America and its people ... funny how all the Americans I speak to say "oh, i didnt vote for him ...". Of course by "Americans" i mean the "majority of".

[–] yxc999@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Jup, it's so sad that it's happening and most people either don't even realize it or are too brainwashed to care. In Germany the police is advised to, if they should have your unlocked phone, set up a Whatsapp-Web instance by quickly scanning the QR-code on your phone to monitor you since they can simply intercept the verification PIN SMS. At least on Signal you can set up a PIN to enter whenever you add a new device.