Privacy and digital rights supporters are largely preferred to build a travel device from the beginning, but they care that a phone that is very clean, like a very burner phone, can cause doubts.
“You have to give the device a ‘badge’. Use the phone for a day or even a few hours. It may not be Neat It is strange, “Matt Mitchell, the founder of the Cryptovarle, the founder of security and privacy training and advocacy, says Matt Mitchell.” My recommendation is to make a fiscal for travel, because if they ask you what your profile is, how do you say ‘I don’t use any social media’? Many people have some accounts anyway. A rich, a proportional – joined a journey.
Sierra, who belongs to Amnesty International, has also said that a real burner phone will be a “mute” phone, which will not be able to run apps for encrypted communication. “The benefit of all we have with smartphones is that you can communicate in a secret manner,” says Sier. “People should be kept conscious that any nasalized communication is less secure than a message on an application like a phone call or a signal.”
Although the travel device does not need to use the prepaid SIM card purchased with cash, it should not share your normal phone number, as this number is probably mostly linked if not all of your key digital accounts are. Buy SIM card for your journey or just use the device on Wi -Fi.
Traveling with your primary phone
During the border crossing, you can take the other approach to protect your device, which is to edit your basic smartphone before traveling. It includes removing old photos and messages and storing them somewhere else, clearing unnecessary apps, and either fully removing some apps or logging into them with their main accounts and re -logging in with travel accounts.
Digital Security Helpline Director in Rights Group Axis, Mohammed Al -Sakti, says people should consider this type of cleanout before traveling. They say, “I will see my device and see what I need apps.” “If I don’t need the app, I just remove it.”
Al -Mastti added that he suggests removal of people, especially dating apps and anything related to LGBTQI communities, especially if they consider themselves a more risk of facing a device. And in general, this approach is only safe when you are particularly diligent about removing each app that can put you at risk.
You can make your own phone as a travel phone as a travel phone, wipe out it, just make a travel device with the apps that really requires you during the journey, goes on the journey, and then can be restored by the backup when you get home. This approach is viable but time demand, and it creates more opportunities for operational security errors or known as “OPSEC fails”. If you try to delete all your old, unwanted apps, but lose one, you can expose an old social media account or other historical service that has forgotten the data. Messaging apps can easily go back and forth for years of searching archives and can Save photos and files automatically Without knowing you. And if you back up all your data on the cloud and remove it from your device, but still login to the cloud account that reduces other services (such as your central Google or Apple account), you may be asked to produce data from the cloud for inspection.