But the numbers are not LOW if you think about it.  3 percent is a lot.  Every time you cross borders, your chance increases to fall for a secondary inspection.  In the numbers NotFuzzyWarm presented, around 13 MILLION people went through second screening only in the last year.  That is over 1 million per month or over 35 thousand travelers per day.  The number is in fact huge, even if it is almost nothing compared to TOTAL number of travelers.

I know people who traveled to the United States and went through secondary screening.  They had their devices checked too.  In fact, I believe the majority of the people I heard of traveling to the United States had border patrol go through their phones.  I also often heard the worst thing you can do is bring USB sticks and hard drives.

It sounds insane that these are among the worst things you can travel with, but it is what it is.  The best thing to do is simply travel with a dumb phone or a clean smart phone with only essential applications installed on it.  If they ever check you, you at least have nothing to worry about.

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Quote from: bbc.reporter on April 27, 2025, 05:23:57 AM

On social media, you will see these people who are new to the cryptospace take selfies with their wallets. They are making it very much easy for criminals and for the government to track them hehehe.

That is asking to be robbed.  If people like the attention they almost never even receive at all from posting their wealth all over the internet, then the problem and the consequences are on their own shoulders.  It seems very silly to me, but there are a ton of people who never seem to realize how many problems they can get themselves in for a few upvotes on the internet.

But the numbers are not LOW if you think about it.  3 percent is a lot.  Every time you cross borders, your chance increases to fall for a secondary inspection.  In the numbers NotFuzzyWarm presented, around 1713 MILLION people went through second screening only in the last year.  That is over 1 million per month or over 35 thousand travelers per day.  The number is in fact huge, even if it is almost nothing compared to TOTAL number of travelers.

I know people who traveled to the United States and went through secondary screening.  They had their devices checked too.  In fact, I believe the majority of the people I heard of traveling to the United States had border patrol go through their phones.  I also often heard the worst thing you can do is bring USB sticks and hard drives. 

It sounds insane that these are among the worst things you can travel with, but it is what it is.  The best thing to do is simply travel with a dumb phone or a clean smart phone with only essential applications installed on it.  If they ever check you, you at least have nothing to worry about.

But the numbers are not LOW if you think about it.  3 percent is a lot.  Every time you cross borders, your chance increases to fall for a secondary inspection.  In the numbers NotFuzzyWarm presented, around 17 MILLION people went through second screening only in the last year.  The number is in fact huge, even if it is almost nothing compared to TOTAL number of travelers.

I know people who traveled to the United States and went through secondary screening.  They had their devices checked too.  I also often heard the worst thing you can do is bring USB sticks and hard drives.  It sounds insane that these are among the worst things you can travel with, but it is what it is.  The best thing to do is simply travel with a dumb phone or a clean smart phone with only essential applications installed on it.  If they ever check you, you at least have nothing to worry about.