Glad I'm poor

[marwi_3023]

I'm too poor to travel.
Maybe if I could I wouldn't be taking my phone.
There is no way I'd be handing over my phone to anyone. I don't care what clothes they are wearing.
I thought New Zealand was a friendly country

[travlyn2012]

Read about that yesterday.

Fines of up to $4000 Thats right $4000 if you refuse to unlock your phone for customs personel

when you come into the country.

Great way to destroy the tourism.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/nz-demanding-travellers-hand-phone-passwords-212137482.html

[lyhargr_0]

Not a problem for me, 'cause I don't own a mobile ph 

[tasfleur · Accepted solution]

I would never hand a phone with any personal information on it over to anyone willingly, absolutely nobody.

Why or how anyone would or could trust airport security people to not retain (for the want of a better word) certain details is beyond me.  Of course, there are separate passwords for various functions such as banking, but if certain authorities get their hands on those, kiss the money in the account/s goodbye;   history shows even security employees have those who are dishonest amongst the ranks.. 

I've chosen to have a 'dumb' phone, one that is not and cannot be connected to the internet, it's just a telephone, ring in, ring out and text, that's it, but I don't use the text anyway.

Fat lot of good that would be for airport security .... 

There are ways that the smart phone can be 'dried' and then reloaded later via the internet, so people who want to keep their information secure certainly can do that.  The criminal element would be aware of that also.

I think New Zealand is making a huge mistake ...

[onlinehokum]

Totally agree Tasfleur, this country NZ is making a huge mistake

[imastawka]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-08/if-a-border-agent-demands-access-to-your-digital-device/103507...

[marwi_3023]

It would appear that we are now all guilty until proven innocent

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

there is a simple solution for this . . . . . don’t take your main phone with you when travelling overseas.

A friend of mine got a new ‘basic’ phone and loaded it with the contacts he wanted to use while travelling.  He had hardly used it before he left so there was no great “history” to speak of.  Little or no browser history also helped.

Then, when asked to hand over his phone there was no hesitation.  They looked at his text history and then handed it back as there was nothing else really to look at.  Before returning to Australia he uploaded his photos to the cloud and then wiped the phone history and did a factory reset.  That means returning to Australia without any problems regarding a phone.

As far as social media account content goes, I think that all people should be wary of what they post on social media regardless of travel intentions.

Spoiler

that’s why I am such a saint here on these boards.

You’ll never see me threaten posters, you won’t see me revealing too much of my life backstory, I rarely post my personal political opinions, my posts can be pretty boring and I know it.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

one thing I forgot . . . . . . I don’t get bogged down on CS threads and rarely post here

Spoiler

helps in avoiding confrontation.  The Buying and Selling boards are much more moderated.

[onlinehokum]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

there is a simple solution for this . . . . . don’t take your main phone with you when travelling overseas.

A friend of mine got a new ‘basic’ phone and loaded it with the contacts he wanted to use while travelling.  He had hardly used it before he left so there was no great “history” to speak of.  Little or no browser history also helped.

Then, when asked to hand over his phone there was no hesitation.  They looked at his text history and then handed it back as there was nothing else really to look at.  Before returning to Australia he uploaded his photos to the cloud and then wiped the phone history and did a factory reset.  That means returning to Australia without any problems regarding a phone.

As far as social media account content goes, I think that all people should be wary of what they post on social media regardless of travel intentions.

Spoiler

that’s why I am such a saint here on these boards.

You’ll never see me threaten posters, you won’t see me revealing too much of my life backstory, I rarely post my personal political opinions, my posts can be pretty boring and I know it.

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not everyone can afford two phones & secondly, we shoudn't have to resort to taking another phone when travelling abroad