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That's a fucking awful situation.
And unfortunately I might be in the same boat soon. I'm planning to visit family outside the country, and for the return flight I'm gonna be taking an old phone that I've cleaned of anything remotely useful for them as an excuse for their fascist bullshit. But I've left all the mundane bullshit that would be on a normal phone, text messages from siblings saying "food", cat pictures, random games, etc. So it won't look like a burner phone for the most part. So I can just give them the phone if they ask and it won't matter.
But I still need access to my shit, so I've set up my desktop at home for ssh with termux. I can see them using this an excuse as well, but it's probably the best I can get it without giving them potentially direct access to my password vault, messages, etc. I'm still debating if it is worth trying to remember my IP and port so there's even less for them to see.
If anybody's got better suggestions I'm open to them.
Oblgitory: fuck this fascist ass country
Treat confiscation of your devices like an attack. Any indications of where to attack next is a potential vulnerability, even if it's secured.
Is generating a long password that you can't remember and set it as a password for your device then save it inside some cloud service that you can login to later plausible?
Maybe? If an attacker has unfettered access to your device, it's only a matter of time before they get in, provided they wish to expend the resources to do so. Especially if it's confiscated.
Disk encryption exists
Just write the IP down on a sticky note. Then throw it away before you board your home flight.
That's a good idea, I might do that, or something similar.
Use freedns.afraid.org to point your IP to a subdomain you can remember for an event easier time
That site has domains that'll let you make subdomain on them even if you're not the owner, which is cool