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, rather than a landfill, but I’m with you in principle: If the authorities get it out of your possession, the hardware is compromised.
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.
Shouldn’t you also reinstall the boot loader for the same reason as you’d bin the phone?
Speak of the devil. This article is from two days ago.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/
I prefer to send electronics to e-waste recycling, 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.
Can I tour your bunker?
Infosec, Financials and Elections. Having good security posture is fashionable.
No bunker, but you can come tour my boat.
“No bunker”
Oh, I understand. <wink wink>
No you don’t, but that’s ok, I wouldn’t expect you to.
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.
My EDC boots Navigatrix.
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.