Your Phone, Your Data: How to Safeguard Your Digital Life When Entering the U.S.

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That's easy it's called a burner phone. I'm a US citizen and I know if your whiten 100 miles of a international border the Border Patrol can take your phone and clone it legally without a warrant.

Burner phone + just a couple phone numbers for family at home + Session. That's how I travel anywhere.

Can they do it to Nokia E-series? They say the encryption here is rather strong.

Nokia hasn't made an Eseries phone since 2011 and Symbian OS hasn't been updated in a long time it also has no real app store.

While that helps I wouldn't pretend that makes it's encryption all that great it's old. They can clone the OS, stick it in a FBI database and break it anytime they decide it's worth going after.

The best defense is just don't take your personal phone anywhere near a 5-eyes border patrol area. This isn't just about the USA, it's even easier to take your phone in a western EU nation than here.

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