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Don't integrate privacy-focused email service (hushmail/proton etc) into a non-private phone. Access it via the webmail interface.

I've been asked several times to decrypt my phone at international boarders. If you leave things to webmail, unlocking your phone doesn't give them access to your email account, or even tell them where it is. All the TSA/Cops get is my "[email protected]" address that I haven't checked since day one with the phone. My access to my real email is covered by a web browser that doesn't keep records.



My ProtonMail installation on Android supports PIN/fingerprint locking


They could definitely ask you to unlock it. It's why apps like 1password added a "Travel Mode" https://blog.1password.com/introducing-travel-mode-protect-y...


That's pretty cool! Similarly, couldn't you just uninstall the ProtonMail native app when traveling?




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