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Use the most obscure fork of Android possible, learn the most obscure language in Africa and set your UI to that language, ...

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They just have to change the language back to English

What's the alternative? The guy paid $1000+ just to get there and spent 3+ hours at customs. Refusing is basically saying "ok I fly back home"

remove English from the OS

People that travel to the US usually want to actually get into the US. Why would they make it hard on themself?

People want to get into the US without having their personal thoughts searched. US citizens also have the right to enter the US without personal thoughts searched.

Nobody I know didn't expect to get searched deeper than they are comfortable with when they planned to enter the US for holidays or travel.

The US is known for giving a fuck about privacy and personal borders. That's literally the one thing they are known for

Nah, you bring a new phone with no contacts other than family and colleagues on it.

> Use the most obscure fork of Android possible

Why Android? Try GNU/Linux with SXMo instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39155103

That sounds like a good recipe for getting pulled for secondary screening

Screen for what?

"Why do you use this OS"

"I like the OS"

"Why do you use this language"

"I like the language"

"Why did you buy GME shares"

"I like the stock"

Aaaaand with the bootloader unlocked, they'll just grab the Cellebrite and/or call up Cellebrite Professional Services for remote unlock assistance.

https://cellebrite.com/en/advanced-services/

The biggest thing is to set your device up on arrival to be powered OFF. Most of Cellebrite (and other security vendors) solutions rely on the phone having been unlocked once since first poweron (or "AFU").

Even better would be to not even bring a phone in the first place, and get a temporary one after arrival. Or get a prepaid one beforehand with nothing on it, if you're confident that won't be suspicious.

Better at what? Painting yourself into a corner if something goes wrong and you don't have any local contacts that can help you?

Better at not having vulnerable data accessible to anyone that doesn't need it.

A new prepaid phone is what, $100? Sticky notes are essentially free.

Cellebrite has an extra column for GrapheneOS, as they seemingly can't unlock it (since ~2 years), compared to all other Android OEM Flavours.

And with GrapheneOS you can relock the bootloader, once you've installed it.

Source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41072905

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/14344-cellebrite-premium-ju...

That certainly won't look suspicious at all /s

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