Joined 15 years ago
Right before the wipe I update my cloud backups of course, and if I've been doing a lot of work I use Carbon Copy Cloner to an SSD encrypted APFS volume and use DHL to ship the SSD to someone I can retrieve it from once home. I also have finally started traveling with a second phone (a cheap Consumer Cellular backup flip phone with only a few family in the address book).
"Password, please" - "sure, no problem: Travel1234 with a capital T."*
Restoring the devices is a bit of a pain, but is faster and easier with the SSD assuming it arrives.
But them's the times we're living in.
* I suppose if it they ever ask and login, CBP will ask "Why doesn't your device have any user data? This is suspicious." I might tell them about the time an Israeli border dude took my computer into a back room for an hour and by the time I got home someone in Israel had stolen and sold one of my better domain names. Or might just shrug and say "Citizen".
I am a little curious in that scenario (thoroughly wiped device, comply with password request) if they still impound the wiped device (after they presumably connect it to whatever digital-strip-search gadget they hide in the back room and it comes back clean).
I breadboarded a little EPROM programmer (driven by a parallel printer port with the programming code done in Forth because I couldn't afford a real one). Then breadboarded implemented a little Z80 system with a bunch of general purpose I/O and a Forth "OS" in EPROM.
Used that little setup as the basis for a number of projects, including a home alarm system with phone-based control plus voice synthesis phone-based alert calling (which a couple silicon valley VCs were gracious enough to take a meeting about).
Forth gave me wings. Despite it's reputation as a "write-only language". Good times.
No "share" or "download" button in the app? Sure, "apps are cool" and all that - but what about folks who want to archive or share their health data? AFAIK literally no provision to share all those nifty biomarkers with my doctor (except many, many screenshots)?
Nowhere in the "how to get blood test" email instructions does it bother to mention a urine sample will also be needed. Kinda useful to know if you should not pee right before heading to the lab.
A few comments claim the sensors can be triggers by non-smoking events such as hairspray, nail polish remover, perfume...
If that is accurate it seems to me one could exploit that sensor flaw by purposefully triggering a false positives with some benign action - and video record doing so - perhaps a couple of times.
Then if and when smoking is alleged, obtain a log of the alleged event times, then provide video evidence that debunks at least one alleged smoking event.
A relatively small number of activists could probably create a viral nightmare for Hyatt and anyone else implementing this system.
But today their "Rackspace Email" (hosted Webmail/IMAP/POP/SMTP) has been disrupted since 2pm ETS.
