So bits are considered a controlled substance now?
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Never going anywhere near that border.
Nothing new, I thought they can read your phone going through an airport.
Not if it's off and encrypted with a strong passphrase
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Anyway I prefer to suck at my ellbow before visiting the US.
A lot of suggestions in here but the real way to avoid this to do an encrypted backup of your entire phone to the cloud, wipe it, then log into whatever service you used to store it and import it after you're safely in another country. They might keep you for a while because having an empty phone is suspicious, but they won't get anything.
Reminds me if when Jacob Applebaum crossed with a laptop with no disk and they were very confused with what to do lol
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Remember to always turn off your phone before getting off the plane.
Please insert the border security probe.
Just today I wondered how long it is till americans ~~wil~~l need a VPN to watch YouTube
Why would America (US, rather) ever want to restrict their citizen's access to one of their primary propaganda drivers? If you're in America, it's already necessary to avoid youtube directly and access it via frontends like invidious if you want even slightly decent privacy and to try to avoid being sucked into youtube's personally tailored algorithm. Though you may at some point need a VPN in order to access those (the frontends) if they aren't already outlawed. I can definitely see the US banning youtube alternatives like peertube instances, further restricting any kind of oppositional content on youtube itself, and enforcing strict identity requirements to access things on the internet, but they aren't ever going to make it difficult to access their state-approved slop troughs.
Because current administration copies what Russia is doing (I want to add China to the list, but have no experience, so for now omitted), and is now also run by a moron. That's how low I think of them governments of both countries
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