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How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
(www.wired.com)
Step 1: don’t
It appears that these countries now have some form of warning associated with travelling to the USA:
- Australia
- Canada
- Denmark
- Finland
- Germany
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- United Kingdom
Sure are a lot of 5eyes countries in that list. I'm pretty sure we don't have closer allies than that. Well aside from Russia now
I wish it were so easy. I'll be going there later this year because family. Ugh
I'd make them come to me unless it was someone on their deathbed. A literal life or death scenario.
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.
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.
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.
Until he gets detained by trumps border people.
A fucking Chromebook lmao
I mean it is quite locked down and something cheap enough for the nonce.
Pretty funny in the US context tho, I'd imagine it wouldn't be too hard for them to get google to "help"
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.
I'll actively try to avoid that. There's been a time in which I thought it could have been interesting to visit that country, but the time has passed.
It's so sad. We have a beautiful country and most people are very nice.
I guess so, but recent news aren't exactly inspiring. I'm really sorry for you (and I say that from an EU country with shitty politicians as well).
Got to be really deranged to vote for a candidate that ran on a platform of revenge and hate, and there's at the minimum 70 million of those types of Americans which outnumbers many individual countries. Americans suck and don't seem nice. Too many bad apples.
At this point, I just feel bad for them. Our education system failed them. These "deranged" people you are talking about are our friends, coworkers, and family who have been misled by a system that was built based on slavery. Keep your masses uneducated, and you can do what you want with them.
Some of them woke up before the election (a friend of mine from Arkansas), some were killed by Covid (my coworker from Texas), and some will learn what the unintended consequences are of voting against their best interest (my aunt that used to work for the federal government in Ohio).
But deranged, they are not. However, I do think Hillary was right. Some of them are deplorable, but I don’t know any deplorables.
Education is not a good defense when you weren't given any different education than the rest. And it seems like an ideology that they choose even among those more educated and wealthier. This whole only poor uneducated fall for lies is misleading and passes off personal responsibility.
They are the ones who chose despite others not doing so. And even the worst people are capable of moments of kindness, but it doesn't change who they are at their core and what they choose to believe when they don't have to selectively filter themselves.
And feel bad for them all you want. It doesn't change that people around the world are suffering because of their decisions that empowered the people in charge, since they believed they would be the exception.
Don't visit unless it is a life or death situation. I wouldn't want to go into country that wants to finger print me, hand over social media, and copy my devices.
I've never travel outside of Mexico before, but let's say, I do want to travel to a country that do not ask you for a visa, BUT, to get to that country my plane do need to make a stopover in the US. Do I do need visa just for that stopover in the US?
Not if you transfer directly to another plane, you only need a Visa if you go through passport control.
Most airports do it like this, but I've been to places hat need a transit visa just to get to your next flight. Odds are you are correct for a US connection.
Yeah it varies from one airport to another. It can also depends on layover time. In Hong Kong (on my way from Aus to Vietnam) I had to leave through customs to get to another part of the airport and enter through customs to get my connection. I was fingerprinted and facemapped both ways.
If I had been leaving via a gate closer to where I arrived, I wouldn't have had to do that.
Similar happened when connecting in Kuala Lumpur where the layover was 9 hours due to typhoon and the airline forced me to leave the airport, allegedly to go to a hotel they comped me, but I doubled back and snuck into a closed off area where someone forgot to lock out an elevator to sleep for a bit. They force you to leave the airport so there are fewer people just milling about for hours.
ship it to your hotel and travel with a burner til you reach your destination.
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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