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.

  • @hperrin
    15•8 months ago

    Bring your own router. Don’t plug things directly into the ethernet jacks in hotel rooms. Plug your router into there and connect to it instead. If you can then VPN into your home network, even better.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)English
      7•8 months ago

      DD-WRT is fairly easy to set up and has VPN support. I recommend using Wireguard as opposed to OpenVPN due to efficiency, ESPECIALLY WITH CHEAP WEAK ROUTERS.
      I mean, it’s a huge difference from my tests. With OpenVPN I hit 100% CPU usage on my Cisco Linksys WRT160NL at just 5Mbps. With Wireguard I was doing 25Mbps with just around 20% CPU usage (reported by top, not webUI).