What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?

Re:What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at t... by infinite8s on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:53PM (#13662475)

Well, in tptacek's case, I believe he's a US citizen so they can't deny him entry.

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Re:What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at t... by graeme on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:20PM (#13662729)

Hmm. What would be the best practice for a foreign national?

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Re:What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at t... by zeveb on Thursday February 16, 2017 @04:01PM (#13663529)

> 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

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Re:What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at t... by tptacek on Thursday February 16, 2017 @03:52PM (#13663474)

None of us know. It's a real problem.

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