These cases make the headlines, but they must be casually searching electronics and getting all kinds of private data, photos, videos, etc. They unlock your phone and download everything for their amusement and to violate your rights later. The fact that they’ll fuck with a lawyer to get his client’s info says volumes about the restraint being shown.
It might still feel like everything is normal in the US, but realize that you’re living in a fascist state in its infancy. The rule of law no longer applies.
This has been the case since the Patriot Act was passed during Bush’s Presidency after 9/11.
And let’s not forget the massive civil society surveillance aparatus that Snowden revealed…
The US has been moving away from Democracy and into Authoritanism for a long time, all with full bipartisan approval.
Trump or somebody like him getting elected and taking the gloves of the whole authoritarianism aparatus that was built and supported by previous Administrations, was always going to happen.
The US has been moving away from Democracy and been Authoritarian since it’s creation, all with full bipartisan approval.
Ftfy
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South Korea did it this year. The USA can do it too.
Is this a reference to something?
a fascist state in its infancy
Edit: And just like that I fuck up and reply to the wrong comment. Oh Lemmy, you always have a way of reminding me why I hate using phones to read and type.
That doesn’t answer their question, though.The reply about NK seems out of place. Someone says a joke about strangling a [fascist] baby [in it’s state of infancy] and another mentions some event (presumably involving infanticide) happening in the most repressed and propagandized country in the world, but fails to mention what event they refer to. I am also confused…
I’m a nobody American citizen. I’ll be traveling internationally for a short vacation soon and already decided that the only electronics I’m taking are a burner phone and a loaner laptop I’m checking out from the public library. I have nothing to hide, but the GOP administration have shown they’ll make up any excuse to invade privacy and restrict liberty.
Your public library allows you take their loaner laptops out of the country?
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So buy one from walmart/amazon and return it when your done. Don’t potentially fuck over your local library, one of the few remaining bastions of public service, when TSA decides it’s suspiciously clean (and/or finds probable traces from the person that had it before you).
How am I fucking over my library? If it is seized at the border, I’m on the hook to pay to replace it, and I will.
They aren’t in the business of selling laptops. Even if you pay for it they are still out time and resources.
Edit: But the post I was replying to was suggesting lieing (by omission) to the library, which is a shitty thing to do.
Have you ever managed a fleet of computers (corporate, education, industrial, etc)? I can tell you from first hand experience that a dead/damaged/missing/stolen computer is simply business as usual. Also the likelihood it will be seized at the border is low. Its not none, but it is low.
OK
If your trip is less than 2 weeks then you can also buy one from the Apple Store
Walmarts return policy for electronics is also only 2 weeks. I know because ill rent out a laptop from them about once a year.
Ah so it’s the same. Whenever I have a MacBook in for repairs under warranty I just go and buy another one and return it when I pick up my repaired one haha
Two words for you: restocking fees!
Rental fee*
I was as amazed as you and went and checked my local library and indeed they do rent laptops.
it’s not rent, you get to borrow them for free.
I have nothing to hide
Yeah, you do.
You might run into an extra grumpy customs/ICE/TSA/whatever person who felt offended at your mere existence.
that’s potentially very dangerous–taking a laptop you do not know the history of or what may be hidden in metadata or unused sectors of the internal storage.
Everything is potentially dangerous. US Citizens have been deported
I suppose in that sense, getting any used laptop is always risky. You could pull the hard drive and run some kind of USB live distro.
I suppose they could try to say you had something illegal in the firmware / BIOS. Like ascii stick figure CSAM? 🤷
I hope you have a safe trip and safe return.
Remember to not volunteer any information, and keep answers to questions short and on point. If you can, make sure to tell your friends and family who are staying in the states about your expected departure and return times. Also look up one or two lawyers to have on speed dial on your burner (smart move btw!!).
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Don’t actually. Just make it boring and empty. If you have porn, they can do things like lie you and say that one of the girls was underage, and then use the threat of prosecution to coerce you into serving as an informant or the likes.
My phone when crossing the border will look something like this:
Trying that from LatAm->USA on a work visa would look something like this at border entry:
🔄🔄🔄
(They figure it’s been factory reset to hide the texts to arrange some “totally legit” work authorization docs, etc.) Take with grain of salt of course
This led me to something interesting!
Dang. I’ll have to remember this next time I cross the boarder lol
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