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A reminder to practice good OPSEC before crossing borders. Different threat models may require more diligence, but as a basic rule of thumb, use travel devices and/or burner phones. Use a pin and password, not biometrics as some countries can force you to unlock devices with biometrics (country laws vary so do your diligence). Access data from the your e2ee travel cloud upon arrival at your final destination. Wipe the devices clean before crossing back over. Will write a more detailed guide soon.
**Security researcher phone and laptop were searched by US CBP for 3 hours**
> My phone and laptop were searched for 3 hours by US CBP at a land border crossing. I tried to refuse and return to Canada but I was not allowed to. If anyone has any advice on forensic analysis I can do to my own device to see what they did I would be grateful for it.
>
>I was heavily pressured to divulge passwords (“you can write down your password and we can do this the easy way or we can do it the long and hard way”) which I did and I was ultimately allowed into the US after the search.
The security researcher is author of
https://defuse.ca/An excellent article on privacy vs security:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/security_vs_pri.htmlThe full post:
#cybersecgirl
Published at
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