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?
burner seems safest and fastest
Or you could backup all you data somewhere accessible over a secure connection, wipe your phone before go anywhere, and restore the data once out of the country. You would need to do the same before coming back. Backup, wipe, travel, restore.
Consumes a lot of time (and data) which probably isn’t worth it for short trips where your mobile data is costing you. But if you’ll be gone a while and will have access to an unmetered network connection, it’s feasible.
It accomplishes the same thing as wiping your phone at customs, but planned and executed in-advance instead of panic-wiping it in front of them. 🤷
Remember to back up your backup, because once you wipe your phone, your backup is no longer a backup; it’s your sole copy.
Is there a way to back up to something like a thumb drive? I haven’t thought about it but I guess we all probably carry a lot of data on our phones we dont strictly NEED day to day that you could back up and leave at home.