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How do I leave this country without getting accosted or apprehended by ICE? Or TSA? Or any other authorities? (Any suggestions welcome) (For trans Latina leaving to Europe) (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by Makan@lemmygrad.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12376741

I will be leaving next month.

I see TSA-approved locks.

I don't want to alert trigger-happy guards or whatever.

I will delete all my third-party apps too.

I will also probably just reboot my tablet completely.

Same with my laptop.

Probably my phone too.

Saving my passwords somewhere else too.

I have some other ways to be private that I won't reveal openly unless you want to DM, idk

But honestly, with this new cyclospora going around, I just want to survive the next three or four weeks.

What do you suggest?

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[–] someone@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

I’ve recently read that an encrypted phone is thoroughly & completely secured when first turned on until you unlock it for the first time, so it will be unreadable to any three-letter agency no matter what tricks they have unless they have the unlock code (which you should probably also change the night before to give the phone time to process/perpetuate the change).

This may not be true. It depends on the model of phone, version of the operating system, and other factors. Some agencies have tools to break into phones. They can break into BFU (Before First Unlock) in some situations, but not others. So I wouldn't rely on this to be correct.