Traveling with digital devices can be risky -- sometimes phones or laptops are seized as you’re going through security, they can be scanned, and a whole bunch of personal data taken from them. This includes your private photos, passwords to email accounts, and even your 2FA seeds.

For anyone who wants to maximize privacy, here are 6 tips for traveling with electronic devices.

The final tip is “phone pair locking”, where, even if your phone is taken by security, it can't be connected to any forensics machines or copied.

00:00 Intro
01:49 How Phone Pairing Threatens Your Privacy
03:56 How to Protect Your Data
04:00 Power Off Devices
05:32 Silo Data
06:13 Don't Draw Attention To Yourself
07:04 Protect Your 2FA Seeds
07:25 Configure Your Pin Settings
08:28 Phone Pair-Locking

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