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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Sponsored by Home Depot

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you bring a burner phone and they search it and see nothing on it, they'll think that suspicious too and might deny entry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fill it with Cat photos 😼

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Yup. That's a possibility. I work in security and would tell them it's just how we do things. If they send me home I will spend the week with my family instead of sitting in stupid training all week.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I thought that was basic opsec. Burner phone with a week of use, paid in cash on you. Real phone (if you need it) in a bag, battery removed and separate by any means. That's not just crossing borders, that's anything longer than a city bus.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)

What phones have removable batteries?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's funny. I'll just jump in my time machine and go back 11 years.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

The most brutal correction I believe I have ever witnessed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just wild that you have to practice opsec crossing a border that used to not even ask for your passport lol

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Heh, about time to get factory reset on speed dial.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You know having a freshly wiped phone right before getting searched would make you just as suscious, right. They would assume the worst about you, and either deport, or just detain you to a black site for months. Just use a burner.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Burner phone is the way to go, wherever you travel.

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