Traveling internationally (question) (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by ramble81@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So I’ll be traveling in such a way that I’ll be crossing the US border. I want to take a burner phone so I can wipe it, or have innocuous enough data. The problem: all my passwords are stored in a password manager that uses 2FA tied to my primary phone which will be sitting at home (along with other sites that use 2FA tied to authenticators on my phone).

So remembering passwords is out. And not having access to 2FA presents a catch-22. So what’s the best way to approach that?

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[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Security is about making it harder for the bad guys to get to what you don't want them to get to. If they were sufficiently determined, sure they could get to it, but it is another layer. And one they may not expect, or if they were not sufficiently trained, what to do about.

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