Travel multiplies surveillance exposure — unfamiliar networks, border crossings, different legal regimes, hostile environments. This guide is calm, practical preparation matched to where you are actually going.
Travel is when privacy gets harder. The familiar protections that hold up at home — trusted network, known devices, predictable laws — do not necessarily travel with you. You will use hotel Wi-Fi, cross borders that may search devices, enter jurisdictions whose laws around privacy and speech are quite different from your own, and stay in places whose physical security you cannot vouch for.
This guide is travel OPSEC for ordinary people. It covers the travel threat-modelling question (most trips need only basic preparation; some need substantial preparation; very few need the full treatment), pre-trip preparation, the device question for travel, border crossings honestly (including what to do if asked to unlock a device), hostile Wi-Fi networks, unfamiliar laws in high-surveillance environments, accommodation and physical security on the road, and how to come home cleanly.
Written from actually travelling with privacy practices intact — through borders, around high-surveillance destinations, and in ordinary tourist circumstances alike. Practical, calibrated, not paranoid.
Anyone who travels — business, tourism, family visits, journalism, professional travel. Calibrated for ordinary trips by default, with the depth available when a particular trip needs more.
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