Traveling internationally (question) (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Assuming your 2FA method is TOTP. Back up the 2FA keys to an encrypted file, with a long passphrase. Take it with you (or store it in the cloud, in this situation this is possibly safer). The when you need them just

install a TOTP app
import decrypted keys
login to things. Then when you’re done logout of things and delete the TOTP app.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

I like this. Australia has draconian phone search laws when entering, so I might adopt this in the future on principle.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What happens when you get in? You need to let them access everything ?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Everything, or indefinite detention without a lawyer.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Jesus Christ!

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