It would be nice if Apple provided something like this but for the entire phone. An iOS Travel Mode that when activated erased all but some chosen apps, left a select few (or many) contacts, etc, just enough to get by in the short term. Then, once deactivated all the other data would come back.
I know, I can back up and later restore but I'm looking to just hit a switch and have only the travel approved stuff stay behind. Make it simple to get into Travel Mode.
Customs Officer: Sir, can you unlock your phone and turn off Travel Mode? Please hand it over to me.
When I used to travel to China on business, I never took a phone or a computer. I knew everything could potentially be recorded or compromised.
I'm a long time user and wasn't even aware they had gone the subscription route. Honestly, I wouldn't buy it today if I had to pay monthly. Would rather pay more upfront one-time only. I'd even pay for updates. Subscriptions should only be for magazines and newspapers where you get new content every time. Paying over and over for the same thing is wrong. I understand the desire for income stream, but people are getting nickel and dimed to death with all these subscriptions.
I'm a long time user and wasn't even aware they had gone the subscription route. Honestly, I wouldn't buy it today if I had to pay monthly. Would rather pay more upfront one-time only. I'd even pay for updates. Subscriptions should only be for magazines and newspapers where you get new content every time. Paying over and over for the same thing is wrong. I understand the desire for income stream, but people are getting nickel and dimed to death with all these subscriptions.
Both are an option. The subscription route works for many because paying that much for an app outright can be daunting if you're not even sure why you'd need one in the first place.
I think a better solution is for Apple to using a "poisoned finger" in Touch ID that will lock down everything to the point of where it's essentially just like it was after a restart if they try to compel you to use a finger to unlock the device and to send your lack known location to iCloud and one or more contacts of your choice.
If Apple were to implement this (which they won't, because of it's potential to be accused of what LEO will call "destroying evidence" even if there was nothing on the device that could reasonably be called evidence of anything), then every single finger on both of my hands would be the "poison" one.
LEO: I need you to unlock your phone.
Me: Got a warrant?
LEO: I don't need a warrant to compel you to unlock your fingerprint secured phone.
Me: It's not secured with a finger print, but with a password, and I assert my Fifth Amendment protected right not to give that to you.
LEO: I don't believe you, now use all of your fingers to attempt to unlock your phone.
Me: If you insist...
Watch those Sovereign Citizen videos on YouTube much?
Ad hominem much? I guess when you don't have anything actually cogent to say...
One doesn't have to be a crackpot to understand how LEO uses various strategies to violate our rights, and take steps to thwart those strategies. And if taking steps to protect my rights in the face of LEO lies and intimidation makes me a crackpot, well then, I'm a crackpot.
The Sovereign Citizen movement is misguided and mostly wrong, but much of it is prompted by very real abuses by government.
It would be nice if Apple provided something like this but for the entire phone. An iOS Travel Mode that when activated erased all but some chosen apps, left a select few (or many) contacts, etc, just enough to get by in the short term. Then, once deactivated all the other data would come back.
I know, I can back up and later restore but I'm looking to just hit a switch and have only the travel approved stuff stay behind. Make it simple to get into Travel Mode.
Customs Officer: Sir, can you unlock your phone and turn off Travel Mode? Please hand it over to me.
When I used to travel to China on business, I never took a phone or a computer. I knew everything could potentially be recorded or compromised.
Some here would say you're just being paranoid and that if you're doing nothing wrong you shouldn't care if your device gets hacked so it can record everything you do.
It would be nice if Apple provided something like this but for the entire phone. An iOS Travel Mode that when activated erased all but some chosen apps, left a select few (or many) contacts, etc, just enough to get by in the short term. Then, once deactivated all the other data would come back.
I know, I can back up and later restore but I'm looking to just hit a switch and have only the travel approved stuff stay behind. Make it simple to get into Travel Mode.
Customs Officer: Sir, can you unlock your phone and turn off Travel Mode? Please hand it over to me.
The idea is that getting out of "travel mode" takes a non-trivial action by the user so that they can avoid doing so while complying with lawful orders.
I don't see Apple being this overt, because it's not great PR to be seen as adding features specifically to "defeat" the police (as opposed to protecting against theft and criminals). I think they'll let 1Password and others serve this market.
I also don't understand why people get super excited about a feature like this. If you're an average law-abiding citizen that's not hiding any criminal activity, who cares if a customs agent looks through your phone? So they'll find a "I love you shmoopie" text to your significant other...bfd. They have a job to do, namely to protect you from those that may wish to do you harm...Travel Mode prevents them from doing that job.
People really need to get over themselves; you're not that important.
I was with you on the first part (that people can overreact), but you lost me on the second part. How on Earth can a customs agent "protect me from those that may with to do me harm" by looking at the contents of my phone (laptop, private papers, etc.) at a port of entry? It seems like the definition of an "unreasonable search" to look at the correspondence, pictures, documents, etc. of random people on the incredibly unlikely possibility that you'll stumble onto a terrorist plot (or whatever). Using that logic, random house searches would pass the same test. I'm sure that police randomly searched 100 homes they would find evidence related to some crime or pending crime in at least a few of those. Too bad; the Constitution prohibits that sort of fishing expedition.
It would be nice if Apple provided something like this but for the entire phone. An iOS Travel Mode that when activated erased all but some chosen apps, left a select few (or many) contacts, etc, just enough to get by in the short term. Then, once deactivated all the other data would come back.
I know, I can back up and later restore but I'm looking to just hit a switch and have only the travel approved stuff stay behind. Make it simple to get into Travel Mode.
Customs Officer: Sir, can you unlock your phone and turn off Travel Mode? Please hand it over to me.
The idea is that getting out of "travel mode" takes a non-trivial action by the user so that they can avoid doing so while complying with lawful orders.
I don't see Apple being this overt, because it's not great PR to be seen as adding features specifically to "defeat" the police (as opposed to protecting against theft and criminals). I think they'll let 1Password and others serve this market.
I also don't understand why people get super excited about a feature like this. If you're an average law-abiding citizen that's not hiding any criminal activity, who cares if a customs agent looks through your phone? So they'll find a "I love you shmoopie" text to your significant other...bfd. They have a job to do, namely to protect you from those that may wish to do you harm...Travel Mode prevents them from doing that job.
People really need to get over themselves; you're not that important.
I was with you on the first part (that people can overreact), but you lost me on the second part. How on Earth can a customs agent "protect me from those that may with to do me harm" by looking at the contents of my phone (laptop, private papers, etc.) at a port of entry? It seems like the definition of an "unreasonable search" to look at the correspondence, pictures, documents, etc. of random people on the incredibly unlikely possibility that you'll stumble onto a terrorist plot (or whatever). Using that logic, random house searches would pass the same test. I'm sure that police randomly searched 100 homes they would find evidence related to some crime or pending crime in at least a few of those. Too bad; the Constitution prohibits that sort of fishing expedition.
It would be nice if Apple provided something like this but for the entire phone. An iOS Travel Mode that when activated erased all but some chosen apps, left a select few (or many) contacts, etc, just enough to get by in the short term. Then, once deactivated all the other data would come back.
I know, I can back up and later restore but I'm looking to just hit a switch and have only the travel approved stuff stay behind. Make it simple to get into Travel Mode.
Customs Officer: Sir, can you unlock your phone and turn off Travel Mode? Please hand it over to me.
The idea is that getting out of "travel mode" takes a non-trivial action by the user so that they can avoid doing so while complying with lawful orders.
I don't see Apple being this overt, because it's not great PR to be seen as adding features specifically to "defeat" the police (as opposed to protecting against theft and criminals). I think they'll let 1Password and others serve this market.
I also don't understand why people get super excited about a feature like this. If you're an average law-abiding citizen that's not hiding any criminal activity, who cares if a customs agent looks through your phone? So they'll find a "I love you shmoopie" text to your significant other...bfd. They have a job to do, namely to protect you from those that may wish to do you harm...Travel Mode prevents them from doing that job.
People really need to get over themselves; you're not that important.
The problem is that a customs agent in some countries is not necessarily out to protect you. If you have sensitive information regarding banking access etc, there is no assurance that your information is private.
It would be nice if Apple provided something like this but for the entire phone. An iOS Travel Mode that when activated erased all but some chosen apps, left a select few (or many) contacts, etc, just enough to get by in the short term. Then, once deactivated all the other data would come back.
I know, I can back up and later restore but I'm looking to just hit a switch and have only the travel approved stuff stay behind. Make it simple to get into Travel Mode.
Customs Officer: Sir, can you unlock your phone and turn off Travel Mode? Please hand it over to me.
The idea is that getting out of "travel mode" takes a non-trivial action by the user so that they can avoid doing so while complying with lawful orders.
I don't see Apple being this overt, because it's not great PR to be seen as adding features specifically to "defeat" the police (as opposed to protecting against theft and criminals). I think they'll let 1Password and others serve this market.
I also don't understand why people get super excited about a feature like this. If you're an average law-abiding citizen that's not hiding any criminal activity, who cares if a customs agent looks through your phone? So they'll find a "I love you shmoopie" text to your significant other...bfd. They have a job to do, namely to protect you from those that may wish to do you harm...Travel Mode prevents them from doing that job.
People really need to get over themselves; you're not that important.
Ah, the old "if you have nothing to hide" argument. For the sake of humanity, PLEASE go read 1984. Or a history book.
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Ad hominem much? I guess when you don't have anything actually cogent to say...
One doesn't have to be a crackpot to understand how LEO uses various strategies to violate our rights, and take steps to thwart those strategies. And if taking steps to protect my rights in the face of LEO lies and intimidation makes me a crackpot, well then, I'm a crackpot.
The Sovereign Citizen movement is misguided and mostly wrong, but much of it is prompted by very real abuses by government.
I was with you on the first part (that people can overreact), but you lost me on the second part. How on Earth can a customs agent "protect me from those that may with to do me harm" by looking at the contents of my phone (laptop, private papers, etc.) at a port of entry? It seems like the definition of an "unreasonable search" to look at the correspondence, pictures, documents, etc. of random people on the incredibly unlikely possibility that you'll stumble onto a terrorist plot (or whatever). Using that logic, random house searches would pass the same test. I'm sure that police randomly searched 100 homes they would find evidence related to some crime or pending crime in at least a few of those. Too bad; the Constitution prohibits that sort of fishing expedition.