Travelling to the US - precautions?
Travelling to the US - precautions?
Hi all,
I am travelling soon to the US, for my vocation and as a long-time private person I will be taking some steps to maintain my privacy as I enter the country.
As this is an interesting area of the topic, I have decided to throw the question open to all of you.
What precautions (IT, physical, mental, otherwise) do you undertake when travelling internationally?
M.
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Encrypted personal devices, and VPNs, mostly. It's really difficult to maintain real privacy when travelling through customs, the best I can do is make sure my persisted data is safe, and my internet traffic is obfuscated.
EDIT: I keep an encrypted USB pen drive with emergency information on it, should something happen to my phone or laptop, I can quickly get back off the ground.
How do you have that pen drive setup? What are you using to encrypt that drive? If it’s a third party encryptor, do you have the encrypt or install file downloaded on that drive also? Basically, what’s the process to get back up and running again?
I use VeraCrypt to encrypt the whole partition, with a password. I then have on the encrypted partition a backup of my phone contacts, as well as a restricted access wireguard config file pointed at my server. That server hosts VaultWarden, where I can log in with an additional password, and download a wireguard config file with higher access. I then connect using said higher access VPN profile and can download phone backups, access a VaultWarden account with my actual logins, etc.