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1. delichon · 1790868019 · focus · HN ↗

   I keep all of my most sensitive personal documents on my phone, as an emergency backup, but in an encrypted (Cryptomator) volume that requires a separate password. Given the routine news of such exploits this seems like due diligence.

   As I understand it this encryption is a significant additional barrier to technical or legal access to those files. If someone knows otherwise, please let me know. Being wrong could cost me my home and life savings.

   1. pieter_mj · 1790868216 · focus · HN ↗

      If you travel abroad you must unlock. No 4th amendment for you.

      1. jstanley · 1790868440 · focus · HN ↗

         This is mostly FUD. I've never been asked to unlock my phone when travelling abroad.

         1. serf · 1790870203 · focus · HN ↗

            I get asked to unlock my dev laptop every single time I go from the US to Montreal. The TSA person sits there and waits for my WM to boot before waving me past.

            It seems more like they're trying to determine that it is in fact a laptop and not something resembling one.

            1. folmar · 1790882645 · focus · HN ↗

               In EU normally BIOS startup screen is the point at which they wave it as ok.

               1. LorenPechtel · 1790901794 · focus · HN ↗

                  I've only had it a couple of times, BIOS was enough. Very good as the battery in that machine was shot and it couldn't actually boot. (I always used it plugged in, it wasn't worth the cost to fix.)

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