150
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 2 weeks ago

Wired is lost. If you dont offer up credible social media accounts or if you have a wiped phone, they probably wont let you in. These people still believe that the rules apply but they simply dont. There are no guarantees.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 30 points 2 weeks ago

You can tell that to

Ryan Lackey has traveled to countries like Russia or China[;] he has taken certain precautions: Instead of his usual gear, the Seattle-based security researcher and chief security officer of a cryptocurrency insurance firm brings a locked-down Chromebook and an iPhone that's set up to sync with a separate, nonsensitive Apple account. He wipes both before every trip and loads only the minimum data he'll need. Lackey has gone so far as to keep separate travel sets for each country, so that he can forensically analyze the devices when he gets home to check for signs of each country's tampering.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

Now, Lackey says, the countries that warrant that paranoid approach to travel might include not just Russia and China but also the United States

Thats what he wrote right after your quote, implying that he hasnt tested it. Also this level of paranoia was always justified for US travel and he surely knows that. The thing is that the US is now probably worse than Russia or China when it comes to the chance for random people to be arrested. For political activists its probably equally likely but the survival chance in the US is still higher.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Until he gets detained by trumps border people.

[-] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

I mean it is quite locked down and something cheap enough for the nonce.

[-] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty funny in the US context tho, I'd imagine it wouldn't be too hard for them to get google to "help"

[-] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Last time I travelled to the US, I brought my old phone. It had plenty of text messages, a few photos of family and nature, and nothing else. They didn't check it, but I guessed it would pass the "not a burner" vibe. Now I'm wondering, though, how people would react to me having no social media presence (other than Reddit at that time, which I accessed via browser). Not that I'm planning to travel to the US ever again, but I wonder whether there's a market for perfectly inoffensive fake social media accounts.

this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
150 points (93.1% liked)

Technology

68600 readers
3065 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS