“Slavery was a choice”

-Kanye “I am a nazi” West

Don’t have anything political or religious stuff on your phone.

Encrypt and upload those stuff to a Non-US cloud account, then delete them all from your phone. If you want to be extra safe, after you upload all the sensitive materials to a cloud account, make a separate back up of you non-sensitive data, then wipe your phone and then restore. Any traces of sensitive political stuff should be gone, since modern phones would delete the encryption key tied to the old data. Make it look as “normal” as possible. Keep your photos on their, pets, family photos, everything you’re fine with the government seeing (so, nothing political).

And make sure you have your documents, take photos of all of them and back up to cloud. If you were born outisde of the US, the burdon of proof of Citizenship apparantly lies on the claimant. Even if you were born in the US, still have documents ready.

If its non-essential travel, like tourism, I’d suggest just not cross the US border (neither in or out) until times are safer. I’d only consider exiting the US border if you are planning leaving permanently, otherwise, just don’t cross the border.

There are plenty of places within the country that you can visit without getting caught uo with the border shenanigans. (But please do not travel to a republican jurisdiction)

I’m this close to quitting my job so I don’t have to go.

So, this is work travel? Oof, good luck. Have your documents ready and you should be fine.

Act nice, Don’t argue with the border agents, you can’t win a confrontaton with them. If anything goes wrong, your only chance to win is in court (and hopefully, the rule of law hasn’t completely collapsed)

TLDR: Just delete all sensitive data and you can go ahead and consent to searches without worrying, they won’t be finding anything.

BFU and AFU doesn’t matter if the authorites don’t obey laws.

You can refuse all you want, they’ll just jail you for refusing.

The UK already jail people for refusing to unlock their devices. Now with a president of the US who does not respect the rule of law, the same, or worse, will happen.

Just don’t have anything political on your phone, let them search all they want, there’s nothing there.

Keep any such materials on a Non-US cloud account, in encrypted format, without any personally identifiable information on that account. Hopefully you access them through VPN/Tor to make it difficult for them to determine the existence of such accounts.

The hate isn’t exactly on the billionaires themselves, its the system.

You chop one head off, another will just take its place.

The entire system needs to be dismantled.

We’ve tricked, we’ve been backstabbed, and quite possibly, OMG ITS SO ADORABLE, LEMMY PET IT 😍

I’ll say ProtonVPN (despite the CEO controversy)

If you ever want to watch Youtube videos, Mullvad and IVPN is gonna trigger websites like Youtube, Reddit, sometimes even Google search engine, to block you or make you sign in.

Mullvad and IVPN has too few servers, its much more likely for a server to get blocked.

ProtonVPN has like 11,000 servers, so even if it doesn’t work on the first server, clear browsing data, close browser, and pick another server. Usually you’ll find a working one within like 3 tries. Don’t let it auto pick the closest one, just randomly scroll and click on a server.

Meh, its probably some issue with the carrier assigning IP addresses.

I occasionally get search results in Spanish and it shows my location as in Mexico, even though I’m closer to the Canadian border. And do not speak Spanish, am not Hispanic, and do not have Spanish in my phone settings.

IP address shows it as near where I live. Not sure what the problem is.

I use a VPN with only like Fennec and a few apps selected to go through the Wireguard tunnel, everything else use a separate Wireguard tunnel. Neither’s exit server is in Mexico.

Must be a bug 🤷‍♂️

Aluminum Foil has joined the chat.

Yay.

India gets to experience their own version of the “Great Firewall”

Isn’t the future just great? Every country gets their own “intranet” 🙃

/s obviously

I mean… you do know someone can just take a screenshot, right?

And even if you use the Android thing that blocks screenshots, they can still take a photo with another phone.

You need to trust the other person for there to be any “privacy”.

256GB and MicroSD card slot (usually its either 128GB with SD card slot, or higher storage, but without the card slot). This is best of both world. Basically the perfect phone unless you need flagship-level processing power or cameras.

Read my other comment. It leads back to the same thing.

Okay, so I attempted to access it again. Its currently in a weird state of partial access.

I can “log in” but as soon as I try to access anything, say, Gmail, I get that screen again.

This is what the settings page looks like:

So its not totally locked out, but its not functional either, I’m not even on a VPN.

Notice, 2FA is off.

Then I click Gmail and get this:

I tap “more ways to verify” and get this:

I tap the only option, and it circles back to the previous screen.

🤷‍♂️

MFA was never enabled.

Bruh, I was testing some android features and wiped an android phone, then when I tried to log in again, they wanted a verification code from the previous device, the one I just wiped. Not even will a phone number satisfy them.

Its essentially locked out, unless I get a time machine to undo wiping the phone.

I mean, what happens if someone lose their phone and wants to log in to google to wipe their device? Like… how would you obtain the verification code on a phone a thief now has?

Its just even just privacy issues, Google is braindead when it come to their “security”.

Luckily, I wiped it in settings so FRP was off.

Laptop manufacturers are also looking to move away from windows to a linux bases operating system.

Redstar OS it is 😉

I’m worried about Chinese mobile OSes intentionally designed to make it difficult for VPN apps to work, and companies would just give up trying to design a separate app for the Chinese market, which reinforces a tighter grip on censorship.

Not to mention, all the other FOSS tools that would no longer work if they make android .apks incompatible, including a lot of encryption apps.

They can’t fire you, because it would mean they have to fire hegseth with his “flawless opsec”

Lol, this is literally a privacy community, why do you think people would use a throwaway account?

And its sarcasm. Someone posting a “Hire a hitman today!” isn’t actually advocating murder, just to point out the absurdity of the situation.

But it’s fine, I get it, sarcasm is hard to understand.

If you want to install free tracking tools, you’ll need consent or try to guess the lockscreen password to try to install it covertly.

With this, its doesn’t require consent, since most families are on the same family plan.

Only abusers would use this, since a normal person who actually cares about a family member’s safety would just ask them to install a tracking app voluntarily and be transparent about it.

Its tracking either way, but doing so voluntarily is way less creepy and also free.

Most modern Android and iOS allows you to share your locations for free via Google and Apple “Find My Phone” networks.