Privacy

I have found that guys can use their penis as a fingerprint. Reliability may vary given whatever state of arousal you're at, but good luck trying to get me to whip it out to unlock my phone.

Ladies, I'm not sure how practical this idea may be for you, but the same concept just might work for nipples as well.

Your device should be private to you, so if it takes locking it using your physical privates, well do whatever you gotta do.

Disclaimer: I've only done very limited testing on this, but it actually did work for me.

the last time this idiocy was going around, companies were switching employees to netbooks, chromebooks, thin clients, burners, etc. when traveling – default install, don’t log in until in the other country, log out or wipe before leaving the other country – this time, the corporations seem perfectly happy to capitulate and throw their corporate secrets (and the employees) under the bus …

Would it help to have electronics, phone included, in your checked baggage?

If not, then people might have to consider smuggling their phone through in a brick of coke. Or put it in a condom and swallow it.

When you travel, bring as few devices as possible with you. Obviously, you'll bring your phone with you, but leave your laptop at home if you can.

Last time I travelled overseas I took a burner phone without a calling plan, and just used it as a wifi device at the hotel. I used google maps and "offline maps", GPS still worked. Used the phone as a camera, and I would have uploaded anything private and wiped locally but that wasn't necessary.

If anyone at the border had asked, I'd have said it was so I didn't risk losing my phone, and so work couldn't call me up and bug me during vacation.

Can't this be avoided, at least on Android, by simply shutting down your phone? Thought I read somewhere that they lock down everything, even system processes, after turning on again until you unlock it again. Or are you also forced to type the password and let them in?