Re:What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at t...
by infinite8s on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:53PM
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Well, in tptacek's case, I believe he's a US citizen so they can't deny him entry.
Re:What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at t...
by graeme on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:20PM
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Hmm. What would be the best practice for a foreign national?
Re:What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at t...
by zeveb on Thursday February 16, 2017 @04:01PM
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> What would be the best practice for a foreign national?
Understand that you may be denied entry to any country but your own. It's a fact of life which you cannot do anything about, so you might as well accept it.
What I do is:
- travel with a machine which is not logged into any of my accounts
- if asked, I can honestly say that I do not know any of my social-media passwords (because they are all of the form mZOH05WaxeAWqI79myMxcx or SWwDmDOkyHCVdX8eOiTLXC1U1psffeXfFgNx6PaZZhp); if that's unacceptable to customs in any country, they can send me back home
- if they press, I can honestly say that my computer back home (not the computer I have with me) has my master password file, and that there is no other copy
"if an alien attempts to cross the border with a device they can't unlock "because they don't have the corresponding 2FA token with them" (as one friend suggested they do), they'll be detained, their devices confiscated, and then put on a flight out of the country."
I guess they haven't yet started asking for social media passwords, so maybe I'm overthinking this. I'm certainly going to be prepared to unlock any devices. It's the web passwords I'm not sure what to do with.