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[–] aldfin@lemm.ee 144 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why travel to that shithole.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

People also travel to Pyongyang just to see just how shitty it is.

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 96 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Travel to the US and it’s your own fault. We have been warned.

[–] te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My partner is a scientist and has to travel to the US for work later this year. We're both dreading it, given all these stories of people being detained at the border.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 14 points 1 week ago

Don't.

Be safe.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago (7 children)

What the actual fuck is going on with my country?!? For fuck sake, not all of us are fascist bellends.

[–] jmantothe64@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Things are still gonna get worse, we're not gonna get through this until their actions hurt so many people that enough of them get fed up and it leads to one of those belgrade or hungary sized protests

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You’re talking about a country that largely lives with its head in the sand. America is notorious for avoiding the news, especially world news. The fact that any is ingested as all is likely thanks to social media. (Im talking large strokes, middle of the bell curve behaviors). As long as the family unit is ok, people generally think they’re ok, and live with blinders for anything outside of that. This life approach has existed long before Trump was even a blip in politics.

Remember, inertia is a seismic, global driving force of action for much of humanity.

I think it would likely take everyone’s personal house burning down in tandem to inspire mass action and those who still had houses would still function via the force of inertia propelling them through their daily habits, ignoring everyone else.

I say that as an American. I don’t like it, but it’s true. That and liberals a very un unified and tend not to like each other. A lot of gatekeeping takes place there rather than uniting and doing, always has. It’s a scattered, messy, un unified party.

In addition, there was another post made in response to a “do something” rant that I think sums up the other piece in play.

“I don’t know how to start a riot.”

Which is a fair point. How? Seriously. And where do you find people when your full personal circle is 2-7 individuals (if you have friends at all, it’s a major problem people seek therapy for these days). and half of the people who are friends with are either MAGA or a dissociated young man who spends all their free time behind a screen engaged in escapism.

We’re kinda screwed on the psychology side over here.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

A third of you are fascist bellends, a third are fighting against the fascist bellends .... and a third are just standing there doing nothing.

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 51 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why even visit a hostile country?

[–] SaturdayMorning@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This. I personally have no plan going to usa now and in the future. Unfortunately some Canadians may still have to go for work related trips. Just be aware that you may or may not need to register in the new "Alien Registration Requirement".

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

Just be aware that you may or may not need to register in the new "Alien Registration Requirement".

And if you choose wrong, they might lock you up in a ~~detention center~~ concentration camp.

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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 48 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Don't carry digital data across any border, even if encrypted. Many countries have totally different standards over search and seizure at their borders to when you have gained entry and sometimes far worse for non citizens.

[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Australia has full rights to search hardware on entry. Careful coming here too.

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 21 points 1 week ago

Exactly. Don't make assumptions just because you are travelling to a "friendly" country.

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[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No need to go to the us. Fuck that hellhole.

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[–] Polderviking@feddit.nl 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is the only solution. I would rather eat nails than go to the States again.

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[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 38 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I actually live in the US and am considering a burner for when I travel.

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[–] ravelin@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 week ago

There's something ironic about reading this with a Home Depot (huge Trump supporter) ad embedded in it.

[–] nick@midwest.social 35 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Turn off your phone before going through customs or tsa. They can’t compel you to give your password out, but biometrics don’t fall under that category.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 75 points 1 week ago (7 children)

And they can refuse you entry if you don’t comply.

[–] nick@midwest.social 23 points 1 week ago

Yup, that’s true.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sleeping on an airport bench for your 2 week business trip knowing you're getting fired when you get home

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesnt work. They wont let you in if you dont unlock your phone. Same thing if you wipe it. They can refuse you for any reason.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago

If you really need to go to the US - Don't bring any electronic devices with you through security or while transitioning through borders.

Leave your devices at home. Bring a single function camera with you if you want.

Once you get across the border ... buy a new or used phone. If you have friends or family waiting for you, ask them to get you a phone, maybe even an old phone or get them to buy a used phone that you can use during your stay (pay them to get it of course).

Set up your new phone - load your data through cloud based systems ... if you are organized enough, you can set up a cloud based password manager to handle all your other data services.

Then when you leave, reformat and reset your phone and either try to sell off the phone you just bought, give it away or just toss it.

Go through security again without a device.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

LOL they changed the headlines to "hateful towards U.S. Policy" now? I thought it was "critical of Trump".

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

FWIW the US is claiming that the researcher had confidential information from Los Alamos National Labs against the terms of his NDA. They claim the researcher admitted to taking the information and attempting to conceal it.

I honestly hope this is the explanation. If we're starting to deny entry to the country simply due to criticisms of domestic policy decisions, we're going down yet another dark path.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How is that a problem when the president is out there storing confidential docs in his golf course, and when they fire off the cybersecurity teams?

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[–] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was at the conference he was supposed to attend - the Lunar and Planetary Science conference. There were a lot of people showing Los Alamos data there.

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[–] newaccountwhodis@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That's not news. The US has for a long time reading/copying contents of electric devices at the border

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

They never asked to see my phone at the border. But the last time I crossed they were getting a hell of a lot more aggressive. They got less aggressive when I became a Canadian citizen, but when I only had my Lebanese passport they almost always brought me in for more questioning. It was kinda bizarre. They probably aggressively searched my luggage, but I can't be sure of that.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They got less aggressive when I became a Canadian citizen, but when I only had my Lebanese passport they almost always brought me in for more questioning.

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This but with passport origins instead of skin color.

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

While technically true, they weren't kicking out foreign visitors for being critical if the president.

I used to train people in a specific culinary technique, and i had clients from all over the world, including Muslim clients from the Middle East and India. Most had no problem visiting, but one was stopped at the border and heavily grilled.

His visa said he was here for vacation and educational purposes, but when they went through his texts, they determined that he was here for business purposes, and threatened to confiscate his cash, and reject him from entering the country.

After a few hours, he eventually convinced them that he had considered his training with me to be educational rather than business for his visa, and it just an honest mistake, with no nefarious purpose, and was finally released so he could visit me, and get his training.

This was about 10 years ago, and I don't remember who was president. It was either Trump or Obama.

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago

My company isn’t organizing any off-sites to the US for my remote first company anymore because of this shit lol. I think partially because nobody outside of the US would even go

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago

Lol free speech amirite

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If you bring a burner phone and they search it and see nothing on it, they'll think that suspicious too and might deny entry.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I thought that was basic opsec. Burner phone with a week of use, paid in cash on you. Real phone (if you need it) in a bag, battery removed and separate by any means. That's not just crossing borders, that's anything longer than a city bus.

[–] Oderus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

What phones have removable batteries?

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] prude@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Who said anything about traveling to the US?

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