Travel with a burner, wipe it before boarding . If at any time my phone has been removed from my possession, when I arrive back at my home port/airport, I remove the SIM and drop the phone in the garbage.
Laptops I mail the encrypted drive back home and travel with a clean install on a disposable 128/256g drive.
I prefer to send electronics to e-waste recycling (or reuse for some task where security doesn’t matter) rather than a landfill, but I’m with you in principle: If the authorities get it out of your possession, the hardware is compromised.
Travel with a burner, wipe it before boarding . If at any time my phone has been removed from my possession, when I arrive back at my home port/airport, I remove the SIM and drop the phone in the garbage.
Laptops I mail the encrypted drive back home and travel with a clean install on a disposable 128/256g drive.
Can I tour your bunker?
Infosec, Financials and Elections. Having good security posture is fashionable.
No bunker, but you can come tour my boat.
“No bunker”
Oh, I understand. <wink wink>
No you don’t, but that’s ok, I wouldn’t expect you to.
I prefer to send electronics to e-waste recycling (or reuse for some task where security doesn’t matter) rather than a landfill, but I’m with you in principle: If the authorities get it out of your possession, the hardware is compromised.
Anything else yes. Possibly a compromised device, I want to go gone bye ASAP and away from me.
trying to explain to my wife why we should buy a new phone every time we visit her family
If you really don’t need much room a persistent operating system on a USB stick can be very clutch.
A 512Gb USB is plenty big enough for me to have a travel OS on, with space for extras. Hell, I used to run Puppy Linux on a 64gb USB.
My EDC boots Navigatrix.
Shouldn’t you also reinstall the boot loader for the same reason as you’d bin the phone?
Speak of the devil. This article is from two days ago.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/