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Travelling to the US - precautions? (lemmy.nine-hells.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

I am travelling soon to the US, for my vocation and as a long-time private person I will be taking some steps to maintain my privacy as I enter the country.

As this is an interesting area of the topic, I have decided to throw the question open to all of you.

What precautions (IT, physical, mental, otherwise) do you undertake when travelling internationally?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Soooo the data on your phone isn't gone because you delete or reset the phone. You literally need to write a blob of zeros or random numbers to fill the space again.

And even that is questionable as there are areas of the storage you are not allowed to write too -- and those areas could contain identifiable data like contacts, SMS, etc...

Just a FYI

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This is not true. As soon as the key is wiped from the TPM-like thingy, any data left on the flash is unrecoverable.

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