I often forget how some cyber habits I have can upset people. This happened today:
Colleague - You're going to [vendor name] event in [USA place] next month. They really should give us lighter notebooks for these trips. How will you take your work PC with you?
Me - I don't. There are sensitive apps and info there. I can lose it. Also, border controls could happen. No way.
Colleague - Huh, so... what will you do?
Me - I use a spare 13" low-end notebook with a fresh linux install, no personal data, no company data. It's light and now it's worth just a few euros.
Colleague - Hah, there's your smartphone anyway!
Me - No way either. Spare Nokia dumbish-phone. The most advanced thing on it is Snake. Maybe.
This didn't end well.
Some of us US people do the same thing when we're traveling outside the US, because we'll be coming back in, and we've given border patrol WAY too much leeway to snoop where ever and when ever they want.
I think it's just reasonable precaution.
