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Jolla Safe Travel Mode

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25 May 2017, by CeD

Airline travellers are now requested to submit their phone to security controls before getting on board; more and more frequently, specially in the United States, they are even requested to unlock it, and/or to reveal their passwords.

To be prepared for this, here are some preventive measures you can take before check-in, to make police & customs controls as smooth as possible, even if your phone contains privacy tools and classified stuff [1].

Before police & customs formalities:

Move your ownkeepass database to j [2]
Replace it with a fake database with some credentials for non-sensitive matters
Back up folder "/root/.gnupg/" (your GnuPG keyrings) to j, empty it and fill it with inoffensive fake data (see here)
Back up/hide all *.gpg and *.asc files
Create alternative candid accounts for email and social networks, hide any evidence of your real accounts
Disable developer mode and Android support
In case you wrote down this note somewhere in your phone, erase it!
Pick a “dumb” device (i.e. unable to mount and read encrypted volumes) having a micro-sd slot (e.g. camera, audio player…)
Swap phone and dumb device micro-sd cards
Smile at security officers, enjoy your flight. You are innocent.

P.S.

Of course, this doesn’t make you 100% safe if you want to travel with ultra confidential data (the only way to do so is to keep it far away from any official of non-official lurkers). However, you’ll have a reasonable probability to appear as someone who has nothing to hide.

Footnotes

[1] These suggested actions are intended for Jolla/SailfishOS phones; you may of course adapt them to your device.

[2] Assuming you have an encrypted “j” volume (e.g. Truecrypt, Veracrypt, LUKS) in your micro-sd card and/or in the cloud (with a strong pass phrase of course). If not, see here.

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Jolla Safe Travel Mode - alternative
27 May 10:38, by CeD

Alternative choice: buy a Nokia 3310, use it when on travel, leave your smartphone in your checked luggage without battery, SIM & micro-SD cards, kept in your pocket.
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