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Yes, border control can go through your phone. Here's what travelers should know. (eu.usatoday.com)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Probably because most backup solutions, especially mobile, are inadequate. Telling employees to wipe their phone and having 5% lose their 2FA, important docs, or whatever is worse than the 0.01% probability of their phone being searched.

I've been wiping all devices when crossing borders for a decade, but I don't use big tech (non E2EE) cloud, and the whole process is the most stressful part of international travel for me.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Easiest solution is to do everything on a remote host and just use the laptop or rdp or ssh or whatever works best for you system.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Yeah, Tailscale makes this a breeze too. Just RDP into your home desktop, and the only thing a third-party will see is your (encrypted) connection to your home network.