1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders

Re:1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing bo... by davidgaw on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:20PM (#14405463)

It's a clever idea, but how long before border authorities simply order travelers to log on to 1Password and turn off travel mode, or be denied entry? I'm guessing not very.

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Re:1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing bo... by aoeusnth1 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:32PM (#14405568)

:-/

What we really need is plausible deniability - if they don't know you use 1password, they don't know to ask for it.

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Re:1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing bo... by Whitestrake on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:58PM (#14406519)

Is plausible deniability the right term here? Usually that's about the ability to deny having known about or authorised something after it's already been discovered.

I'm not really sure how you'd refer to the concept "they don't know I have it, so they don't know to ask". Security through ignorance?

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Re:1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing bo... by aoeusnth1 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @12:37PM (#14411290)

I guess it's a type of steganography then.

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Re:1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing bo... by movedx on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:03PM (#14405765)

This is a good point in my opinion.

My thought on this whole situation is to simply not take my phone or laptop. I don't live nor work in the US, however, so I don't have the issues being faced by people in this thread.

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Re:1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing bo... by ATsch on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @05:51PM (#14405679)

A solution, and what I first thought this did from the headline is to lock you out of your account for, say 4 hours

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Re:1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing bo... by tuxracer on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:14PM (#14405848)

sounds like a great way to get detained for 4 hours

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