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Re:New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ ele... by cryptonector on Friday January 12, 2018 @12:11PM (#16134408)
Might as well just travel with wiped devices.

If you're a U.S. person the worst case scenario is they keep them anyways.

BUT! if you're NOT a U.S. person do keep in mind that CBP takes wiped devices (and lack of devices) as suspicious in itself, and may deny you entry.

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Re:New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ ele... by cosban on Friday January 12, 2018 @12:31PM (#16134582)
Under this concern, perhaps the if being used in "honeypot" mode, it could act as a reverse vault. Rather than setting up what you don't want people to see, you would instead set what you do want them to see.

Regardless, implementation details would probably be better for a different topic.

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Re:New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ ele... by cryptonector on Friday January 12, 2018 @02:41PM (#16135659)
Well, yes, CBP will be seeing a lot of what they don't care about (boring stuff), no doubt.
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