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Posted: 2/13/2017 8:43:52 PM EDT
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/a-nasa-engineer-is-required-to-unlock-his-phone-at-the-border/516489/
The border agent wouldn’t relent. He needed to access the device, he said, and had the authority to do so. He’d handed Bikkannavar a document titled “Inspection of Electronic Devices” when they first sat down, and Bikkannavar gave it a quick scan. The document claimed that CBP had the right to search “all persons, baggage, and merchandise arriving in, or departing from, the United States.” On the backside, in fine print at the bottom, there was a section with the heading, “Consequences of Failure to Provide Information.” The section said that giving up the information is “mandatory” and not cooperating could lead to the “detention and/or seizure” of the electronic device in question.+++++++++++++ Bikkannavar gave up the phone’s passcode to the agent, who immediately wrote it down on a notepad. He was led back to the waiting room, where he sat for another 30 minutes.The agent eventually emerged with Bikkannavar’s phone and handed it back to him. CBP had run “algorithms” on the device, the agent said, to search for threats. It came up clean, so Bikkannavar was free to go. His flight to Los Angeles was boarding, so he ducked out of the office without asking the agent what had been done to the phone in detail. But given the circumstances, and the document he’d been given, Bikkannavar felt it safe to assume that CBP had copied the contents of his work phone. |
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This is why you fly with a burner phone and laptop if you travel internationally.
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They had a self-produced document that stated they could demand access to all your electronic property? Well in that case it must be legal.
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This is why you fly with a burner phone and laptop if you travel internationally. Or don't want the government to make forensic backups of your electronic devices. |
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Or don't want the government to make forensic backups of your electronic devices. View Quote and some scientist who works for the feds and presumably has official ID? I just think that's not something normal people do. Could you imagine if I flew back in, got yanked aside and had a completely sterile phone with no dopey kid pictures or notes about buying more avocados? Wouldn't that be bizarrely suspicious? |
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Explain. View Quote Because you electronic hardware is subject to a search when transiting back through customs into the US. This is not new, it is largely bullshit but it is not new. They had a guy sitting in jail for refusing to unlock his laptop computer....suspicions are child pornography or sex tourism or something. It happened like two years ago. Given the extent of various black boxes that can make a ghost of all your data it is best to travel with clean hardware or burners. From laptops to cellphones. The last part is especially true if you are traveling on business. Foreign government use their National Intelligence services for Industrial Espionage all the time. |
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If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear!
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Sure, if you're a spy or arms dealer View Quote Yeah or maybe you aren't thinking this through clearly. With the advent of cloud computing there isn't any need to store data locally. Carry a clean laptop loaded with the programs you need to conduct your work. Upload your finished work remotely, clean it off the device before you go through customs. Yes, companies get angry when rubes at the customs office go through and copy their data. Do the same with your work phone and leave your personal phone at home. I work for an international cyber security firm. This is standard procedure when I go to places like Mexico or some other third world toilet where they might steal IP. |
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This is why you fly with a burner phone and laptop if you travel internationally. View Quote Exactly what I did. As an attorney I didn't feel comfortable with the possibility of being forced to unlock a phone with hundreds of private client emails. I don't do criminal work, so most likely no one would give a darn. Still I knew it was possible they would ask, and I knew if my answer was no it contains attorney client privileged communication they would bend me over. |
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Because you electronic hardware is subject to a search when transiting back through customs into the US. This is not new, it is largely bullshit but it is not new. They had a guy sitting in jail for refusing to unlock his laptop computer....suspicions are child pornography or sex tourism or something. It happened like two years ago. Given the extent of various black boxes that can make a ghost of all your data it is best to travel with clean hardware or burners. From laptops to cellphones. The last part is especially true if you are traveling on business. Foreign government use their National Intelligence services for Industrial Espionage all the time. View Quote |
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You want your edata and credit card information on your smartphone available to every Customs Monkey during your travels. View Quote |
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I was required to unlock my phone and give it to a secret service agent at inauguration. They then clicked on the internet and went to a web page.
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This is why you fly with a burner phone and laptop if you travel internationally. View Quote And load every dick pic, blue waffle pic, and the girl in tub pic you can find to fill up every bit disk space on that phone and laptop. The BP agent is gonna need therapy after they search my electronics. |
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Yeah or maybe you aren't thinking this through clearly. With the advent of cloud computing there isn't any need to store data locally. Carry a clean laptop loaded with the programs you need to conduct your work. Upload your finished work remotely, clean it off the device before you go through customs. Yes, companies get angry when rubes at the customs office go through and copy their data. Do the same with your work phone and leave your personal phone at home. I work for an international cyber security firm. This is standard procedure when I go to places like Mexico or some other third world toilet where they might steal IP. View Quote |
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This is why you fly with a burner phone and laptop if you travel internationally. That should be sop for anyone traveling to a foreign country on business, and for everyone that works in defense whether on business or not. Don't take a computer at all if possible, and don't take one that has ever contained sensitive information, including competition sensitive or proprietary to private businesses whether traveling for business or vacation. |
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Because you electronic hardware is subject to a search when transiting back through customs into the US. This is not new, it is largely bullshit but it is not new. They had a guy sitting in jail for refusing to unlock his laptop computer....suspicions are child pornography or sex tourism or something. It happened like two years ago. Given the extent of various black boxes that can make a ghost of all your data it is best to travel with clean hardware or burners. From laptops to cellphones. The last part is especially true if you are traveling on business. Foreign government use their National Intelligence services for Industrial Espionage all the time. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Explain. Because you electronic hardware is subject to a search when transiting back through customs into the US. This is not new, it is largely bullshit but it is not new. They had a guy sitting in jail for refusing to unlock his laptop computer....suspicions are child pornography or sex tourism or something. It happened like two years ago. Given the extent of various black boxes that can make a ghost of all your data it is best to travel with clean hardware or burners. From laptops to cellphones. The last part is especially true if you are traveling on business. Foreign government use their National Intelligence services for Industrial Espionage all the time. That case was a little different than normal since the agent saw contraband before the guy shut off the computer. |
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Okay but who the fuck really goes on trips with their super secret back up phone and laptop? and some scientist who works for the feds and presumably has official ID? I just think that's not something normal people do. Could you imagine if I flew back in, got yanked aside and had a completely sterile phone with no dopey kid pictures or notes about buying more avocados? Wouldn't that be bizarrely suspicious? View Quote Yeah but what are they going to do about it? Why is your laptop clean? None of your fucking business should be your answer. We only keep our privacy rights if we fight for them. |
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You got plenty to fear when it comes to your mobile banking apps and app to use your cell phone as a method of payment. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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That's been done for years and only now people are outraged? BTW, if you live within 200 miles of the coast, you live in a Constitution Free Zone.
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I like to see them try that with my work phone...
" I'm not authorized to divulge passwords to DoD IT devices. Access is restricted to authorized DoD personnel only. You may seize the device, but I will need a receipt including your name and badge number." Got the little plastic laminated card and everything! |
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You think the US is bad, you should try China.
Wife actually ended up canceling her last business trip to China because they got word that any executive of the company would be detained indefinitely due to them no longer bribing the correct Government people after their China office leadership got fired and they got fined by the Feds for bribery. (It's expected/required over there, US companies tell their Chinese employees not to do it then they get caught and the US company gets fined despite them telling their local guys no. |
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So you have a burner phone? I absolutely do not know a single person who travels with a 007 burner phone in case the tsa goes batshit on them. Maybe hacker type guys do who are super aware of this stuff View Quote if you were coming back into the USA from abroad, would you be happy to have Customs/TSA make a duplicate image of your smartphone if that meant they now had copies of all your attorney-client email correspondence on your phone, your confidential attorney work-product notes from Evernote or OneNote, and your client and prospective-client contact information? |
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Fuck those border control shitbags with a sack of aids infected dicks...
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Yeah or maybe you aren't thinking this through clearly. With the advent of cloud computing there isn't any need to store data locally. Carry a clean laptop loaded with the programs you need to conduct your work. Upload your finished work remotely, clean it off the device before you go through customs. Yes, companies get angry when rubes at the customs office go through and copy their data. Do the same with your work phone and leave your personal phone at home. I work for an international cyber security firm. This is standard procedure when I go to places like Mexico or some other third world toilet where they might steal IP. View Quote |
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if you were coming back into the USA from abroad, would you be happy to have Customs/TSA make a duplicate image of your smartphone if that meant they now had copies of all your attorney-client email correspondence on your phone, your confidential attorney work-product notes from Evernote or OneNote, and your client and prospective-client contact information? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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So you have a burner phone? I absolutely do not know a single person who travels with a 007 burner phone in case the tsa goes batshit on them. Maybe hacker type guys do who are super aware of this stuff if you were coming back into the USA from abroad, would you be happy to have Customs/TSA make a duplicate image of your smartphone if that meant they now had copies of all your attorney-client email correspondence on your phone, your confidential attorney work-product notes from Evernote or OneNote, and your client and prospective-client contact information? Come on now, if you can't trust the government who can you trust? |
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Some holier than thou over-educated indian guy has a hissy fit over border searches?
After taking his top-secret shit to a race with all sorts of foreign nationals in tech fields? He's just being a bitch because he thinks his curry don't stink. The guy is a spy. Throw him in gitmo.* *yeah, i know it's closed, so, out of a helo twelve point one miles out in the international waters would work too. |
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So you have a burner phone? I absolutely do not know a single person who travels with a 007 burner phone in case the tsa goes batshit on them. Maybe hacker type guys do who are super aware of this stuff View Quote I carry a flip phone because A. the signal sucks where I live, B. I am not going to pay $750 for right now. Even if I did have one I would not carry one on International trips. PS It is becoming clear to me and others in my training class that we are going to be forced to either get a smart phones or a Ipads because the industry we are training for has all kinds of new Blu Tooth tools coming about make the job we are training to do easier with respect to sensors and apps for accurate calculating. Not to mention billing and so on. |
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So you have a burner phone? I absolutely do not know a single person who travels with a 007 burner phone in case the tsa goes batshit on them. Maybe hacker type guys do who are super aware of this stuff View Quote Burner phone and blank assed laptop. Everything via VPN back to my home office computer, VPN logs and software easily nuked from the laptop before leaving foreign lands. Most of the times my US phone is on my charger in my vehicle (12v port active with vehicle off) forwarding all calls to my burner phone, and I don't even need my phone to be on anymore to do that. Another reason why TMobile is the cat's meow. Free txt/data worldwide. I can store all of my whatsapp content in the cloud, backup and move everything on the fly, never have to deal with making a long distance call and paying roaming fees, except when I was on the tarmac of Kigali Airport for 5 hrs early last year. |
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So you have a burner phone? I absolutely do not know a single person who travels with a 007 burner phone in case the tsa goes batshit on them. Maybe hacker type guys do who are super aware of this stuff View Quote At my last job one of our big clients was a fortune 500 company. I had to help one of our contacts (a construction manager that was barely computer literate) take a course on corporate IT security (yeah the irony wasn't lost on me) They had an entire section on traveling internationally and it was their position that corporate devices should not be carried internationally. They didn't exactly tell people to go down to the 7-11 and pay cash for a cricket flip phone, but they made their point. |
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I like to see them try that with my work phone... " I'm not authorized to divulge passwords to DoD IT devices. Access is restricted to authorized DoD personnel only. You may seize the device, but I will need a receipt including your name and badge number." Got the little plastic laminated card and everything! View Quote |
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Depending on the country and your line of work transmitting isn't safe either. Doesn't matter how encrypted the tunnel is. View Quote That's true and that's why there are multiple ways to math your way out of that difficulty. We live in a constantly evolving landscape. At least it is interesting work. |
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Like I was saying, besides I only go boring places not Russia or Latveria View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Yeah or maybe you aren't thinking this through clearly. With the advent of cloud computing there isn't any need to store data locally. Carry a clean laptop loaded with the programs you need to conduct your work. Upload your finished work remotely, clean it off the device before you go through customs. Yes, companies get angry when rubes at the customs office go through and copy their data. Do the same with your work phone and leave your personal phone at home. I work for an international cyber security firm. This is standard procedure when I go to places like Mexico or some other third world toilet where they might steal IP. Being a defense lawyer it may not be that big a deal, but the French Intelligence has an entire unit (about a 1/3 of their budget at one time if you believe the reports) dedicatred to Industrial Espionage. As I mentioned earlier this is an actual concern for people engaged in International Business. Also it is an avenue for them to get blackmail info on company toolks for later. Remember a few months ago when it came out China had uploaded spyware on pretty much every cellphone made in China. Crappola is serious yo. |
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There is zero chance I'd let CBP access any of my electronic devices. If they want to copy the memory and have a hack at some AES-256, they're welcome to, and deserve whatever they can recover.
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I was required to unlock my phone and give it to a secret service agent at inauguration. They then clicked on the internet and went to a web page. View Quote Wow...30 years ago they'd ask to borrow your landline phone and call their own number to capture your incoming and outgoing calls on a PEN register. Ah, the good old days of bugging an entire room with hookswitch bypasses and tracing 66-blocks. ...I get nostalgic sometimes. The more things change, the more they stay the same. |
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If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear! You got plenty to fear when it comes to your mobile banking apps and app to use your cell phone as a method of payment. My point is fairly simple, there are soooooooo many reasons why you should not travel with your laptop or smart phone. People seem to forget all the important stuff they cram into both of the them. |
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Interesting. In the case of a government issued phone or laptop, wouldn't the examining authority have to have the same or higher security clearances at the owner?
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I like to see them try that with my work phone... " I'm not authorized to divulge passwords to DoD IT devices. Access is restricted to authorized DoD personnel only. You may seize the device, but I will need a receipt including your name and badge number." Got the little plastic laminated card and everything! View Quote Yep, I had the same deal where I worked. They would seize the device and when we were cut loose we would notify our agency. Then our goons would go snatch their goon who seized the device. It was quite funny at times. We were told not to say anything and cooperate. |
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