taskschd.mscMar 27
evacide

If you are traveling to or through Hong Kong, here is a new thing to consider when you are deciding whether or not to take your devices with you and how you should set them up.

https://hk.usconsulate.gov/security-alert-2026032601/

Mar 26 at 11:42pmWeb
Show threadxaxatMar 26
@evacide Coming to an autocracy near you.
Show threadStephen CollinsMar 26
@evacide the absolute irony of the US bitching about this.
Show threadCamille Winds DownMar 27
@trib
Yeah I just got back from HKG. This policy sucks but it is to be expected. It is still a rocking cool place and I'm not gonna avoid it cause of this. They aren't the ones shooting their citizens on the street or sending people to needlessly die in random foreign wars.
@evacide
Show threadDubi is here Mar 27
@trib @evacide they're not bitching. They're taking notes
Show threadÖlbaumMar 27
@trib Meanwhile, the only things the Swiss foreign affairs web site warns you about if you intend to travel to the US are [antifa] protests and terrorism. Great job there.
@evacide
Show threadevacideMar 27
@oscherler @trib As an anti-fascist who goes to protests, it's good to know that the Swiss government thinks I'm the most dangerous thing in the United States.
Show threadjosh g.Mar 26
@evacide
Show threadPassengerMar 26

@evacide

This is also the law in the UK and has been for a while now; it is very selectively enforced but cops are getting more insistent about it under the current regime.

(The relevant law is section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. This was sold to the public as necessary for serious counterterrorism and only to be used in extreme cases.)

Show threadD IngramMar 27
@evacide State interference with devices is so bad globally that my employer now bans taking laptops overseas. Any traveller requiring a laptop gets a clean 'burner' machine.
Show threadCamille Winds DownMar 27
@ingram
I just got back from a trip and saw that one of my colleagues also travels with a clean burner laptop. Cool idea if you can afford it! I don't travel with my laptop much but I might get a lil used situation for when I do 🤔
@evacide
Show threadD IngramMar 27
@camille Govt/corp surplus laptops can be had quite cheap. I have a 6y old Thinkpad I picked up a few months ago as an machine to experiment on that cost A$280 and has 16GB RAM. Something similar (after SSD well wiped) could be a travel laptop.
Show threadMichael T BabcockMar 27
@evacide see also America.
Show threadsoloMar 27
@evacide are there any good plausible deniability encryption projects or is it still just veracrypt?
Show threadOlle GladsøMar 27
@evacide Please remind me not to travel via Hong Kong.
Show threadtootbruteMar 27
@Olle_Gladso @evacide also china cause they are the same
Show threadCamille Winds DownMar 27
@Olle_Gladso
Your loss. It's a cool place
@evacide
Show threadFurballsNHairballsMar 27
@evacide
Well shit..more fascist censorship and intrusions
Show threadoscarfalconMar 27

@evacide

It's almost like they DON'T want people to travel so as to better manipulate the "populus".

Show threadBussphometMar 27

@evacide

Well
I never planned on going to winnie the pooh land anyway

Because if anyone demanded that I would break their fingers one at a time

Show threadklausfiendMar 27
@evacide I wonder if there's a market for mobile data restoration: you rent a burner, restore from the cloud, wipe and return the device when you leave. Likely a nightmare of liability the feds would stomp on almost immediately because reasons.
Show threadGareth KitchenMar 27
@evacide
Indeed and for sure. But that's somewhat misleading and poor advice from the US Govt.

If you transit a country the state of local law counts for little.

Remember Miranda the journalist? Detained while transiting the UK while carrying encrypted files relating to Snowden. UK Govt. seized his device and interrogated him.

Transiting an authoritarian country isn't smart!
Show thread🇨🇦 Maverick ✊🇲🇲🇺🇦🇻🇪🇬🇱Mar 27

@evacide I was just looking at flights that transit through HK. When it comes time to book, I won’t book those.

The problem is, what countries actually support & protect the individual’s fundamental right to privacy? As far as I can tell, most western democracies have now become authoritarian. Perhaps a couple still left in continental Europe. I have been avoiding 🇨🇳 and 🇺🇸 for years. Even 🇨🇦 has no problem violating your rights (& putting you & their violations on TV to intimidate the masses)

Show threadBjörnMar 27
@evacide is it not similar when traveling to the US? (Asking as a European)
Show threadevacideMar 27
@bjornh It is not, no.