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A comment on Ask HN: I'm going to China. What privacy precautions can/should I take?.

Re:Ask HN: I'm going to China. What privacy precautions can/... by catkitcourt on Sunday October 07, 2018 @05:09AM (#18159602)
Buy a new phone. Use Project Fi. Throw or sell your phone to other people at US or China after your trip finished.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm going to China. What privacy precautions can/... by rapnie on Sunday October 07, 2018 @05:55AM (#18159757)
> Throw or sell your phone [..]

Could you expand? Because it may be compromised? If so, shouldn't sell it then (at least abroad).

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Re:Ask HN: I'm going to China. What privacy precautions can/... by j16sdiz on Sunday October 07, 2018 @06:12AM (#18159813)
The immigration stuff may request you to plug in some usb cable for “scanning”. This is done in sample base. Depends on how much you trust the China authority, you may or may not want to reset password/reflash stock rom/throw away the phone
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Re:Ask HN: I'm going to China. What privacy precautions can/... by schrodinger on Sunday October 07, 2018 @07:56AM (#18160129)
Does this happen if you’re just laying over in China as well? Planning on flying through China to Thailand.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm going to China. What privacy precautions can/... by jason_slack on Sunday October 07, 2018 @08:08AM (#18160178)
This has never happened to me at all regardless of how I was passing through.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm going to China. What privacy precautions can/... by j16sdiz on Sunday October 07, 2018 @11:41PM (#18163975)
No. This mostly happened on people who go to North West part of China.
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