Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?

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• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you’re in the US and a citizen, you do not have to divulge your password to the authorities or even a judge, per the 5th Amendment. However, they can force you to use your fingerprint or FaceID to unlock your phone.

  If you think there’s a chance the police might want to search your phone, be sure that you have a difficult pin pattern or password to unlock your phone at a minimum. Consider if bringing your phone is necessary. If you’re going to a protest, do not bring your primary phone. Get a cheap burner or go without.

  If you’re not a citizen, you need to think about leaving. Seek asylum anywhere but here. Vacation in Canada. The US is no longer safe for foreigners.

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  • beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    On Android, hold the power button until the menu shows up, them choose “lockdown”. The next unlock will require a PIN.

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    • captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      On iOS, hold down power and volume up (like you’re going to power down or go into emergency mode) then cancel. Next unlock will require your PIN.

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    • kambusha@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fucking Gemini comes up for me now when I do that…

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    • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “on Android” is a mostly useless statement. There are many flavours of it and they do not all behave the same. My phone does not have this.

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    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Or restart. When you first boot your device the drive is encrypted until you enter your code or password.

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  • brandon@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you’re in the US and a citizen, you do not have to divulge your password to the authorities or even a judge, per the 5th Amendment. However, they can force you to use your fingerprint or FaceID to unlock your phone.

    They can, however, probably seize your phone, and refuse to return it to you. Something to keep in mind when deciding to take your primary device, or a burner.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yep. They absolutely can do this with “reasonable suspicion” as legally valid justification.

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  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve set my phone so it will erase if someone enters the PIN backwards (GrapheneOS duress code). It would be fun to watch the authorities wipe the phone.

    I’d probably get deported over it, but whatever.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No guarantees you wouldn’t get deported anyway, citizen or not. But always good to have a backup plan!

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?

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• taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It hasn’t been safe to travel with a phone or laptop since at least the post 9/11 changes to travel rules, at least not into or out of the US and other oppressive regimes that spy on your phone on the border.

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• sloppychops@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No.

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• entwine413@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Any headline that’s a question can be answered with No

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  • merde@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    try this ☞ sh.itjust.works/post/34966959

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  • char_stats@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Unless it’s a WH- question.

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• letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Depends where you’re going. Anywhere first world with a robust democracy that invites opposition and criticism will be safe. Heck in the UK we’ve even got people who openly hate our way of life and want to destroy it.

  But if you’re going to one of the less tolerant places where opposing the incumbent can get you in serious trouble, like Russia, North Korea, Iran, or the USA, probably best take a burner phone with some basic stuff on it that can’t possibly be interpreted as any kind of negativity towards the delicate leader and leave your main one switched off somewhere safe at home. In fact unless you enjoy risk it’s probably best to avoid places like that until they get some proper freedoms in place.

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