Wondering when my publishing record qualifies me for asylum.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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There's something ironic about reading this with a Home Depot (huge Trump supporter) ad embedded in it.
Don't carry digital data across any border, even if encrypted. Many countries have totally different standards over search and seizure at their borders to when you have gained entry and sometimes far worse for non citizens.
Australia has full rights to search hardware on entry. Careful coming here too.
Exactly. Don't make assumptions just because you are travelling to a "friendly" country.
That's not news. The US has for a long time reading/copying contents of electric devices at the border
Bingo. If anything, use of a burner phone will be purposely misconstrued as "suspicious", and used as justification for more thorough screening.
"You just got it last week? That's weird, we usually only hear drug smugglers using new phones. You're not smuggling fentanyl, are you? OK, so you won't mind if I take a look through your luggage to be sure, right? Maybe I should send you to secondary screening for an x-ray."
They never asked to see my phone at the border. But the last time I crossed they were getting a hell of a lot more aggressive. They got less aggressive when I became a Canadian citizen, but when I only had my Lebanese passport they almost always brought me in for more questioning. It was kinda bizarre. They probably aggressively searched my luggage, but I can't be sure of that.
My checked luggage used to be searched when I went to usa. I knew it was searched because tsa would leave a pamphlet inside my luggage saying that it was searched. I believe they have stopped leaving such pamphlet but I won't be surprised if they still search luggages.
Airlines always check their stuff. Border crossings via greyhound bus or car are not always.
I used to get "randomly" searched every time I fly in the US until I was sent to the side room for more extensive search and interview.
After that I never got randomly searched anymore whenever I go through the airport.
I think once they know everything and judged that I'm not going to be a problem, I stopped getting flagged.
From the news, this time feels a bit different.
Unfortunately I'll avoid crossing the border until things settle down in a few years. I don't want to get whisked away by ICE for looking at someone funny
They got less aggressive when I became a Canadian citizen, but when I only had my Lebanese passport they almost always brought me in for more questioning.
This but with passport origins instead of skin color.
People have told me that I could pass for an Italian... hmm...
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Just don't go at all.
This is the only solution. I would rather eat nails than go to the States again.
I read that as snails and was about to comment "bonjour" ... instead I did the joke in this meta way
It's not that uncommon for border patrol to go through your phone. I went to Canada 6-7 years ago and they went through my sister's phone because she told them she wanted to meet a Canadian friend she had made online. Border patrol read their conversations while we waited in a confinement room. It was the last time I went to Canada
So they were trying to keep your sister from being human trafficked and you had a tantrum and refused to come back? Probably not a big loss for Canada.
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Travel to the US and itβs your own fault. We have been warned.
My partner is a scientist and has to travel to the US for work later this year. We're both dreading it, given all these stories of people being detained at the border.
What the actual fuck is going on with my country?!? For fuck sake, not all of us are fascist bellends.
Turn off your phone before going through customs or tsa. They canβt compel you to give your password out, but biometrics donβt fall under that category.
And they can refuse you entry if you donβt comply.
For those of us with GrapheneOS, you could maybe set up a different user profile solely for travel? Hopefully they wouldn't look closely enough to see that it's not the real one
That feels like a pretty big gamble when the consequence for losing is being detained by ICE.
Sleeping on an airport bench for your 2 week business trip knowing you're getting fired when you get home
Why would you get fired? Like they would have to justify it and I dont think "I was oppressed when visiting a fascist police state" is a legally permissible reason to fire someone in most countries
Thats why you should use a Google Pixel with GraphineOS and a unique 20+ digit password (along with a secure VPN like Mullvad)
They would just deny entry if you refuse to unlock.
I got a secret for you. Grapheneos has a duress password feature, if you type it in, it completely wipes the phone. Give them that password and act surprised when the phone shits itself
That will accomplish you preventing them from seeing the contents of your phone. It will also accomplish you not getting past the border. At best.
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