If you're not from the US and want to travel here. Don't.

I thought as a (German and white) visitor I'm gonna be fine.

Border and customs protection took my phone, forced me to unlock it and stole god knows what data from it. The agent was powertripping and made sure to let me know that I am powerless and he can just send me home or do godknowswhat to me.

He directly said "if you're annoying I'm just sending you home".

Apparently my trans ass was part of a "random search". Lol.

I'm fine now and with Lexi luckily. I don't know what kind of malware is on my phone, or what they took from it. I've been crying all throughout my connecting flight.

This place is a dystopian shithole. Please don't go here.

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@lea I wanna give these assholes my Pixel rebooted in repair mode and wanna see what they'll do about it
@[email protected] @lea gonna walk through tsa with my phone and watch in recovery mode
@graphite @lea they'll just go "wtf is this, power it on"... but repair mode should be more unassuming for most folks...
@[email protected] @lea what does repair mode do?
@graphite @lea allocates a sandbox partition, making your phone boot into that, instead of the actual data partition, so technicians and do stuff on your phone without ever touching the actual data.

for stupid people, they wouldn't notice that your phone is actually just in a decoy environment.

https://youtu.be/97F-IqTbyVw?t=73
First look at the Pixel's Repair Mode feature

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@[email protected] @lea ohhhhhhhhhhhhhg