If you are a US citizen traveling anywhere outside of the US you should take a burner phone. If you are not a US citizen and are planning to come to the US for any reason you are fucking stupid and at the very least you should carry a burner phone. Best you get your will and other legal documents in order as well.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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My dad who works for an Australian mining company has been given burner phones for all his trips to China for years now, same for laptops and anything that might be connected to the Internet.
Same has to be standard for travel to the US now.
Most companies in Europe cut down massively on US business trips not just because of this but also because employees refuse to go there.
I'm guessing it wouldn't be very effective for European travellers to the US that already have a lot of their communication based on American servers/infrastructure.
Not to mention most of them running windows and using microsoft office
Yeah and, like Starmer with his burner phone, using Tim Apple™ Phone with "trust me bro, I'm not gonna tell anyone what you're doing on your phone, bro, I only gave the fascist president of that hostile country 24 carat gold as tribute that one time, bro, it's not like I'm on his side or whatever" security features.
Yeah that’s a huge problem. Many companies are working on reducing US services though.
“We want to avoid the risk of China spying on us. As such we got burner phones that are made in China.”
Seriously, IPhones are the burner phones 😒
I know the State hates GraphoneOS and probably other privacy focused FOSS like it but it really would have been the far more optimal. Hell have the phones be models that only do talk and text, no Wi-Fi. Keep the wi-fi stuff on just computers and even then only connected to the embassy network
I firmly believe (and hope) that the iPhones (or any devices) used by government officials are not the ones you can buy in the shop around the corner.
As they should
Of course they would, similarly I'd imagine China does the same.