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Travelling to the US - precautions? (lemmy.nine-hells.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

I am travelling soon to the US, for my vocation and as a long-time private person I will be taking some steps to maintain my privacy as I enter the country.

As this is an interesting area of the topic, I have decided to throw the question open to all of you.

What precautions (IT, physical, mental, otherwise) do you undertake when travelling internationally?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Guessing you’ll take a burner phone? On arrival and Dep in Aus they can demand you open it and they can search anything. If you refuse they quarantine your phone for 14 days and prob use some Israeli software to access the contents

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

Last time I completely re-flashed my phone and only loaded it up with some "travel" accounts that were very basic. It was quite a lot of hassle, though.

This time I think I will just sign out of and delete any cloud services/accounts of concern (including my password safe) from the phone. I will sanitise it of anything I don't want getting into anothers hands.

Once I am safely across the border I can re-download/install what I need.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

and prob use some Israeli software to access the contents

wut?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

Not quite how that one works, but I believe that was the intended reference.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Cellebrite

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Pegasus

https://apnews.com/article/jordan-hacking-pegasus-spyware-nso-group-99b0b1e4ee256e0b4df055f926349a43#