---
date: '2017-02-20'
title: 'Securing your personal devices and accounts'
description: "With the current US administration pondering the possibility of forcing foreign travelers to give up their social media passwords at the border, a lot of recent and justifiable concern has been raised about data privacy. The first mistake you could make is presuming that such a policy won't affect US citizens."
tags: ['privacy', 'security']
---

Jonathan Zdziarski has a detailed write-up on personal, technical security that you should read and consider implementing (particularly given [recent events](http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/12/14583124/nasa-sidd-bikkannavar-detained-cbp-phone-search-trump-travel-ban)).<!-- excerpt -->

> With the current US administration pondering the possibility of forcing foreign travelers to give up their social media passwords at the border, a lot of recent and justifiable concern has been raised about data privacy. The first mistake you could make is presuming that such a policy won't affect US citizens.