We all read about the attempts to charge a US Citizen for destruction of evidence for using the distress pin on his GOS phone. So what is safe to do if you know you will be traveling internationally? Are people getting a burner phone and leaving their normal phone at home? What’s to stop you from saying you dont have a phone if you are stopped at a border crossing?
Cloud-backup your phone, factory reset it, set it up again with a phone number, a different messenger app to the one you currently use and download your idk, 20 most recent pictures to your galery and set one as your background.
You will still be able to make phone calls if needed
You will still be able to send messages on for example Telegram even tho you usually use Signal
The phone will not look like a burner as it has some personal content on it
The phone will look personalized and thus less suspicous together with point 3
Edit: You don’t even have to actually set them up or even open them at all, but maybe even download a shopping list, a notes app, two games, all in all it should take like 10 minutes to make your phone look less suspicous as opposed to the other advice to just factory reset it.
Cloud backup not by Google or Apple of course.
Not sure how you’d do a whole OS backup without using the vendor cloud because apps dont have access to the entire phones ecosystem
Now they do.
On ios? Not sure thats true. On android im sure some sideloading could work
No, i meant i made the backup app have access to the entire system. Rooted it.
Valid advice. But the fact that you wrote all this out is sad. Sad for this land that used to be the land of the free.
Jup, it’s so sad that it’s happening and most people either don’t even realize it or are too brainwashed to care. In Germany the police is advised to, if they should have your unlocked phone, set up a Whatsapp-Web instance by quickly scanning the QR-code on your phone to monitor you since they can simply intercept the verification PIN SMS. At least on Signal you can set up a PIN to enter whenever you add a new device.
Why do that? If they ask you why you have a fully factory reset device with you, just say it’s to keep jackboot thugs like you from being assholes.
Trust me, I would LOVE to insult my way through these assholes, but man, you need to realize noone wants every airport visit to include multiple hours wasted in interrogation. Your comment is absolutely useless.