Courts close the loophole letting the feds search your phone at the border

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Courts close the loophole letting the feds search your phone at the border
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Coming from a district court, I think this ruling could be appealed, but it's welcome news nevertheless.

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Travel with a burner, wipe it before boarding . If at any time my phone has been removed from my possession, when I arrive back at my home port/airport, I remove the SIM and drop the phone in the garbage.

Laptops I mail the encrypted drive back home and travel with a clean install on a disposable 128/256g drive.

I prefer to send electronics to e-waste recycling (or reuse for some task where security doesn't matter) rather than a landfill, but I'm with you in principle: If the authorities get it out of your possession, the hardware is compromised.

Anything else yes. Possibly a compromised device, I want to go gone bye ASAP and away from me.

trying to explain to my wife why we should buy a new phone every time we visit her family

If you really don't need much room a persistent operating system on a USB stick can be very clutch.

A 512Gb USB is plenty big enough for me to have a travel OS on, with space for extras. Hell, I used to run Puppy Linux on a 64gb USB.