it seems like this a re-affirmation of it -- guaranteeing that it'll stay in the books for the rest of our lives

Yah I thought SCOTUS ok'd that within 100 miles of a boarder.

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Seems not! Just lots of circut courts have affirmed the general idea. This is the first at an appellate court.

Border security very likely uses israeli tech to download your whole drive. Even if they don’t I assume they would at least hold you for questioning if you did make such a profile

Archive link: https://archive.is/mEIkV

> agree to do corporate espionage for company A

> get a job at company B, sign an NDA, put all their sensitive data on your phone

> have your buddy get a job with the CBP

> cross the border, "oops, I guess he gets to look at my phone, what can I do?"

> buddy doesn't have an NDA so he tells company A what he saw then splits the money with you

> profit??

An NDA is just a contract, an actual law always trumps it.

You refuse to let them search and they dont let you into the country.

No, you're not. Encrypt the device and turn it off.

make sure that it is off during the entire transit

I've never had them insist that I can recall, but I do remember reading, I believe in the TSA docs, that any devices are supposed to be powered on and able to be demonstrated to be working or something to that effect ... I guess to make sure it's not just a phone-shaped bomb or whatever.

I held on to my old phone when I last upgraded just for this reason. If I ever need to travel internationally in the next few years, that's the one that's coming with me. And as much as I'd like to bring my steam deck for travel entertainment, that's staying home too.

The brown shirts just clone the whole drive and hand it to the egg heads.

Android has this: every OEM calls it something different, but it’s called something similar to second space. iPhones don’t have it at all unfortunately.

With protesting and dissent nearing illegality, It’s no longer safe to have password managers, browser history or social media on your phone. (at borders for now)

I had not considered the risk of having a password manager on my phone and being cohered to unlock it. There's nothing dissentious there to find so I'm not concerned about that (don't infer from that that I think it's acceptable that they can look, I do not). But what's to stop them from stealing financial login info while they're at it? That's the worry that just triggered.

If you express any public dissent toward the administration, you should consider traveling with a dumb phone or a burner, not connected to your email/social online services/password systems.

Traveling with a dumb phone isn't always viable. A recent example I can think of is I had to scan a QR code and fill out a customs form on a website. There was not a paper based alternative. But a burner works.

That prevents them from getting into your phone, but probably prevents you from getting across the border too.

The land of the free eh?

That's basically anywhere in the us

Sure, but not encrypted bits.

Don't buy the phone anywhere near an embassy or airport. Pay cash. Don't give your name or ID. Reinstall the OS immediately after taking it out of the box. Setup FDE with a strong passphrase. Don't use biometrics.

Create even more waste every time you travel

People are just clueing in to how bad it's actually been since 9/11.

It was gray. The used the concept of being outside of US jurisdiction to skirt the laws on illegal search and seizure. Somebody pushed back on this recently, so they made it less gray.

Nice thing for me is I already have 2 phones. I get a phone stipend for work so I can keep my sensitive personal stuff and my sensitive work stuff on separate devices. I work in the public sector, so it's especially important because of Open Records stuff.

But it also means that if I'm going on vacation out of country, I can just take the work phone that's already sanitized.

It’s not enough. We leave such a large digital footprint anymore, it’s not hard to connect everything and everyone together. They almost certainly have some pretty crazy technology that we don’t even have access too as well.

The bigger thing here, is this is a supposed first world country using your personal information and communications to intimidate and threaten you. Heck to even imprison you. That’s third world country tinpot dictator-like behaviour.

Hand over the Lumia and border patrol will be "wtf is this"

I thought I was being original picking Nyan Cat as my profile picture for this platform.

Oh well, we're siblings now I guess. :D