I need advice and tips about traveling with a phone.
What would the best option be:
Backing up everything manually in a cloud (logins etc), then wiping your phone and pass border control and after settling in order country again installing everything again manually? I want to hear thoughts from other people regarding this subject. Thanks!
Basically, don't leave anything on the phone that you do not want others to see.
Also, remove any apps you don't want people to see. Better to access sites via a secure browser than using an app in general anyway in my opinion (banking for example).
I would probably ship the phone to a post office near my hotel and travel with a cheap phone. The advantage of this is the phone is ready to roll without downloading a ton of data. If the phone is packed well it should survive the trip.
Depends how likely do you expect them to check your real phone.
Take a decoy phone that has some usage signs, such as installed apps, messages, pictures etc.
Hide the real phone in your luggage. You have to be really an "interesting target" to fail that check.
Enable multiple users, create a new user and store your info i that profile. Disable multipe users.
Sure, but are they going to force you to unlock it at the post office?
Mr_Black Does that actually work lol?
[deleted] I would probably ship the phone to a post office near my hotel and travel with a cheap phone.
I don't think anyone would rather risk losing all that data (+ the device) not to mention the opportunity to intercept the package and tamper with the phone. Seems not worth for me.
ticklemyIP
I hope not and as soon as you disable multiple users all the data will be deleted...
That's interesting info - always thought it would delete the other profiles and never tried it for fear of that. Then Mr_Black suggestion would be a simple solution for the scenario mentioned here - as long as you set up the profiles so that the sensitive files are stored in secondary profiles.
A follow-up question if i may: Are other profiles forensically visible (I'm not referring to the possibility of extracting data from other profiles, just whether an attacker can tell that there are other profiles than the owner profile)?
Murcielago Are other profiles forensically visible (I'm not referring to the possibility of extracting data from other profiles, just whether an attacker can tell that there are other profiles than the owner profile)?
Yes and unfortunately it's not possible to hide that if someone examines the device.
Ok, thanks for the quick reply.
Still, it may be a possible solution if it's just to withstand a quick visual inspection.
In What countries besides the U.S. are they likely to request looking at your phone upon entering? I would think the best advice thought would be, if you are subject to this, as others mentioned above, to upload all data to a secure cloud, and don't have anything on the phone that you don't want anyone to see. However, the bigger question becomes, how do you know someone hasn't tampered with your phone while in their custody? If something like this occurred, I would be inclined to re-install GOS, and then back up from the cloud.
locked In What countries besides the U.S. are they likely to request looking at your phone upon entering?
Likely? Hard to say.
I suspect many countries can demand... I think this says Canada can: https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/edd-ean-eng.html
Which countries cannot require inspection of device contents?
locked I had this happen to me years ago in a certain Asian country, they asked me to unlock my phone and computer (which I did back then since I was afraid, that country has no good human rights respecting image).
Hathaway_Noa You should tell us what country it was. Many countries don't have good human rights records these days, including The United States, so saying so does not really say much.
locked It was Singapore.
