Yes, border control can go through your phone. Here's what travelers should know.
Yes, border control can go through your phone. Here's what travelers should know.
A growing number of legal U.S. residents and visa holders are being detained or deported after border agents inspect their phones and social media.
You're viewing a single thread.
the last time this idiocy was going around, companies were switching employees to netbooks, chromebooks, thin clients, burners, etc. when traveling – default install, don’t log in until in the other country, log out or wipe before leaving the other country – this time, the corporations seem perfectly happy to capitulate and throw their corporate secrets (and the employees) under the bus …
Probably because most backup solutions, especially mobile, are inadequate. Telling employees to wipe their phone and having 5% lose their 2FA, important docs, or whatever is worse than the 0.01% probability of their phone being searched.
I've been wiping all devices when crossing borders for a decade, but I don't use big tech (non E2EE) cloud, and the whole process is the most stressful part of international travel for me.
Easiest solution is to do everything on a remote host and just use the laptop or rdp or ssh or whatever works best for you system.
Yeah, Tailscale makes this a breeze too. Just RDP into your home desktop, and the only thing a third-party will see is your (encrypted) connection to your home network.