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Has anyone ever had a TSA agent ask about their hardware wallet at airport security?
What is the safest way to travel with your hardware wallet?
Traveling as a digital nomad with Bitcoin seed phrase?
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this might sound silly, but i would pose it anyway. what if one of those shit hop craping rnb low life burger flippin TSA officials and or their international counterparts, lose your wallet device during security checks?
the problem with cold wallet is that most people when they decide to access them use that seed on their online system, comprosiming it. Afterwards, it's no longer a cold wallet even though they think it is. Cold wallet are not the way to go, hardware wallets are. Hardware walles offer plausable denialbility so your SO only steals your dummy wallet after you tell her the PIN so she stops nagging, or that police officer or TSA asshole. Or that robber that put a gun to your head. Or the RSI. Plausable deniability is the best thing ever. Everybody should have it. 5% of your shit on a trezor just behind the PIN with no passhrase but if you type in the passphrase ... bam there is the 95%.
Oh yeah? I have 3.8 million in TSA, 2 million in MSTR; 7 BTC, 725k in IBIT and starting to accumulate some FBTC need to take advantage of zero fees until August right? 👀
I don't use a cellphone, it's up to you if you believe me or not You still don't have an response to the point that you are trusting the security of a random organization which can be breached anytime. Hell, the TSA got breached recently.
It's probably never gonna be an issue for me, but I don't use any biometrics because some of the US border control bs that popped up years ago. It's still unclear whether the 5th amendment covers compelling a fingerprint scan, but it absolutely does cover authorities trying to make you give your pin. They cannot force you to provide a pin to access your phone, biometrics will probably be added too, but who knows. Again, I don't think I'll ever be affected tbh, but I value privacy. And if having a pin for everything is even a little bit more secure from prying eyes, then I'm good without biometrics as of right now. And once the NSA gets involved, they're not gonna need any permission to look at whatever they want anyways lol. But I don't think a simple refusal to TSA by me is gonna spiral into some major investigation.
Well let's get technical then. Is PR an acronym or an intialism? [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whats-an-acronym) speaks on this. >*Words are made up of letters, but a group of letters doesn’t necessarily become a word. Think of FBI or HMO or TSA or TGIF—perfectly common expressions that we encounter every day, but no one would call them words.* MW (not a word, but an initialism) then goes on to talk about the classification of some acronyms vs initilialism. >*They are commonly called acronyms, but there’s a more specific term that’s used by linguists and people who like being precise about these things: initialism. Acronyms like 'scuba' ("self-contained underwater breathing apparatus") are pronounceable as words. Initialisms like 'FBI' are not.* Conclusion: NASA = acronym == word PR = intialism =/= word
Yeah, but if you have to fly the TSA will confiscate it. Now the government has your Bitcoin.
It's confusing for the TSA https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/28/tsa-reportedly-demands-to-inspect-mans-luggage-for-bitcoin/
>I'm more worried about them forcing me to unlock it, which is kind of a compromise of the seed. Store your seed phrases somewhere discrete and then wipe the hardware wallet. Then you can open the hardware wallet for them and nothing will be there. Then you can restore from seed phrase after you pass through the TSA's illusion of security.
Not entirely our business but why are you bringing in 3 different hardware wallets? Are you moving here permanently? It shouldn't matter but I probably would never chance it(With TSA or any other country's customs). If you're just visiting, create a wallet with insert your choice here and travel that way. I'm trying to think about what I'd do if I was moving internationally... even taking precautions, I'd probably just get to the new country and order a new hardware wallet/then restore.
What if TSA asks you to unlock your HWW?
I don't understand the point of an ankle tracker if someone can travel so far it requires a fucking plane? If he's running, that's a public plane so the fucking guy got through TSA without anyone questioning what's on his ankle.
This reminds me of when we got stuck with the Patriot Act in the name of stopping terrorism, and all we got was infinite headache at the TSA and loss of privacy for people following the rules.
The best use case for NFT’s is our identification cards. Think about how many people you’ve given your home address just because they needed your ID. Bouncer at the bar, bank tellers, TSA agents, your employer, etc. None of these people should need your home address but you gave it to them anyways.
It's hilarious hat you think that's math, genius. But again, you think the world is flat. But anyways, I collected the facts you wanted and you were wrong. Like you are about the flat earth. I don't worry about you working for the TSA, because that's where fuckups work until they manage to fuck that up.
And the failure of TSA has been ongoing since 2017, here's ABC reporting on that. https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-operation-us-airports/story?id=51022188
Yeah, but not you. And if they are successful, it must be in spite of being dumb. You work for the TSA, the most useless and least effective federal body ever created. And that's saying something.
It's not an illegal weapons, you can carry it with you. TSA should check that you're not carrying explosives, weapons and other illegal stuff, they have no right to take a hardware wallet which is a small and and safe device.
I travel with mine in my carry-on ALL the time, across borders and fly every week. Why do you not want to take it in your carry-on / through TSA? They don’t even pay attention to it.
The seed is more vulnerable than the wallet itself in an airport setting imho, as long as the wallet has a strong PIN or passphrase. One TSA agent snaps a photo or something and boom, by the time you arrive at your destination your crypto is gone.
The homeland security pays well for matured accounts. You're late for your TSA shift. Bye!
Fuck off back to your TSA job, you're late.
Do you see this people? This is what all the paid troll bots are doing here: normalize the idea that Ross conspired with a hit man for murder and did other heinous (actually) criminal things, by making very certain (bailey) statements in top-level comments, then retreat to their Motte when called out on the facts ("oh, sure, I don't know all the details, but he *did* do X). Mods, if anyone is ever going to be banned or censored here, it needs to be these fucking TSA agents running bots in their off-duty hours.
The final nail in the coffin for freedom, next step after is TSA checking your asshole after u use the toilet
Sounds more like TSA saying: “we aren’t going to be checking your carry-on luggage, but we’re going to need to see everything in your carry-on luggage.”
Have you never been registered by TSA? as soon as they see your wallet they know you are into crypto. My whole point is, that is not impossible to make it without someone in your lifetime stealing them from you but the system is really bad and needs to be replaced by something better. Or people will keep losing their money as they already do, don't assume that everyones life is exactly as yours
One, it's not difficult nor is it easy. It takes some simple responsibility. Two, How the hell are you going to determine who owns crypto and who does not? What you are saying makes no sense. So you are telling me the TSA is just going to interrogate everyone to see if they can get them to reveal their wealth and steal it from them? I mean c'mon... And that's such a dumb argument to make. Sure any lunatic come bust into your house and blow your freaking brains out!?! Aaaaaaaaand!?!? What does that have to do with Bitcoin. That's person is a lunatic. And let's say you store you seed phrase in your head, you memorize it. That person can still kill you regardless but they will NEVER be able to take your funds. The best secured box is my brain. Try taking someones non physical Bitcoin out of their heads.
What? As far as hard money goes. Btc is by far the easiest to travel with. And I mean BY FAR. And I'm sorry I did not know if you weren't traveling all the time your life is boring. News to me. But anywho let's say you are that amazing awesome not boring super intelligent traveling person......YOUD WANT BITCOIN FOR EASE OF TRAVEL... Try bringing gold with you if you don't have a game and travel all the time... Your point is literally in favor of Bitcoin. The TSA does not need to even know or anymore that you are one on you. A ledar or similar devices are TINY. Easily stored and concealed. Not only that, you don't even need any physical evidence of Bitcoin. You could remember your seed phrase in your head and travel anywhere in the world with that with literally zero problems.
the DEA would find it thanks to their snitches in TSA and you'd never get the money back because "you are a drug dealer".
So how's been going so far with avoiding the TSA when you board a plane? Or getting your money back after the glowies take them? Or not reporting up to the last penny to the IRS?
I don’t know but I think it’s worth looking into. There’s also random searches where TSA agents cut locks and search suitcases. I want to take my steel plate with me but I wouldn’t wanna take the risk, I have memorized my seed phrases
Top sub memories? When bitconnect rug pulled, the guys trying to sneak his ledger through TSA and the Eminem threads when we first hit 10k
You have to report that to the TSA
By the TSA and Police Force? Yes. ..but last I checked the IRS isn't asking for my race they are asking for my taxes.
Show me one jurisdiction anywhere in the world with a system in place that comes anywhere close to what you're describing. I'm not being sarcastic, if there's anything like it I'd love to know. Closest thing I know of is the Estonia (population 1.3 million - the size of Dallas, TX) electronic national ID card which is still only fully adopted by the government itself. As my TSA example demonstrates, the real world is much more complicated than the application of some specific piece of technology. The only place the US gets serious about identity verification is at borders where they (somewhat controversially) check entrants against biometrics (retina, fingerprint). At the point we're scanning retinas what does blockchain add here? My bar and diner example go directly to incentives - they don't want to spend money to implement some bullet proof fraud solution so they can turn away more business. They want to do the bare minimum to comply with whatever laws are in place and spend as little money as possible to make as much money as possible. If anything the tide is shifting the other direction - even before COVID most retailers implemented self pay kiosks and terminals because it actually reduces their liability to fraud and shifts it to the payment processors. "Sorry fraud victim, Visa, etc - our employee never even touched the card. They scanned something and it worked. What else are we supposed to do?" My point is taking a complex, real world problem and sprinkling blockchain on it isn't the panacea you seem like you're making it out to be.
Yes that’s a great example proving my point. Bars and TSA have ID scanners to make sure they aren’t counterfeit. Blockchain is just more secure and less susceptible to counterfeit and fraud.
Doesn't matter. Every TSA agent is different. Even if the TSA knows what the hardware wallet is and somehow gets confiscated, a Ledger is just a piece of plastic. The true key is the 24 word phrase you should have written down somewhere else, which they can never confiscate from you.
no, your phone can be hacked beforehand and you'll have no bitcoin by the time you talk to TSA. write it on a piece of paper. add a passphrase and memorize it with the seed.
Another option is to redo the seeds on metal as the 4 digit number corresponding to the matching word from the list of 2048 seed words (assuming you’re using BIP-39). This may be a little less obvious for random TSA eyes.
>Let you get pulled over with $20,000 in cash in your car and see what happens. I've had that happen. Told the cop I'm going to buy a car, he sent me on my way. Same for TSA. >Depending on what prejudices that cop has about you, your $20,000 will be “held” until you provide your financial history to the police force. Cops can confiscate anything they feel like, including your hard wallet. Crypto isn't fixing that issue, and has the issue of your entire account being at risk instead of merely what you're currently carrying in your pockets.
This reminds me of when TSA agents were found to be keeping photos they took of young women during some kind of x-ray that let them see through their clothes. If you give someone power over others like that with no oversight, what do you expect?
maybe they think some rogue TSA agent recognized him and was like 'hey that's the guy who stole my $200 worth of shitcoins!'
Giving TA to TSA could distract them
Two swat teams at the airport... As TSA doesn't even notice.
I work for the TSA, I look at 30 butts daily and dig out tons of hardware
On a PC this seems great but keeping a non-custodial wallet on mobile seems like a terrible idea. I lost 1 phone while riding my motorcycle, another was stolen in Baltimore, a third I eventually got back but was held by the TSA for almost a year because I refused to unlock it for them. Losing a phone these days is bad enough, I’m out $1k or more each time, losing a phone with $300k or more would probably end poorly.
There was a post a few weeks or months ago where someone linked an article about how the metal plates looked suspicious on the x-ray machine and the TSA agents ask to see them if in your carry-on bag. And if it's in your checked bag and they're suspicious they'll just open your bag and examine or take it.
A cypher is easier to remember. Eg offset each letter in each word by 3 letters or something. TSA isn't going to figure that shit out no matter how long they have but eph bright eye would in like 15 seconds
Yes. Why do people make it so much harder than it needs to be? Lol I've moved internationally 4 times in the last few years and have never had trouble bringing my seeds on paper in my carry-on. No one cares. TSA will make you throw out your water bottle, but not once look at your "diary".
Great until TSA wants it bad enough.
There is no security theater here, the game is far more valuable than anything the TSA may try to stop. If the hash rate doesn't grow enough to outpace possible government attacks, then it becomes less secure. I would not put it past a government to try an accumulate enough ASICs to attack the network. But as long as valid miners far outweigh fraudulent miners it is never an issue. But on a more human side, this is a gold rush. No one entity controls any part of the network or hashrate. If Bitmain stopped making ASICs, others would fill the void. If Slushpool tried to limit hashing power, others would not. There is absolutely no scenario where everyone would just say "that's enough hashing power, we can just cut back now". As long as it's still profitable or potentially profitable to mine, people will. It's self fulfilling security and there is never enough hashing power. As long as Moore's Law remains true, faster and more efficient ASICs will always be in demand.
Security theater similar to the TSA. There is too much Hash rate that is not needed. The only person who can attack the Bitcoin network is another Bitcoin miner. You are essentially paying miners (almost 70% in China) to not double spend. There's so many coins that could be 51% attacked all day long but it just doesn't happen often. You can even rent hashrate from Nicehash and similar. https://Crypto51.app
I have a security solution & I haven't yet seen anyone else offer this up, so here goes: Write or etch your recover seed words using a cipher that you memorize. I would not trust myself to fully remember 24 words in order perfectly (I could memorize it but if there were some traumatic event or something I wouildn't trust my brain to remember them perfectly). But I would trust myself to memorize a basic cipher code. Then if I was bringing a metal plate through security & they pulled it out & looked at it, I would not worry about my seed words being on camera. Imagine the stress of bringing a metal card through security, then they want to inspect it because it's picked up by their x-ray machine, and some TSA guys are exposing the words to various cameras. A simple shift cipher or substitution cipher wherein only some of the most common letters are affected would be sufficient to keep anyone from seeing your seed & draining your funds, and it saves you the stress of trying to be sure you always remember 24 words in order forever. Meanwhile, I agree with OP about the overpriced products. Anyone can etch words into metal without spending > $100 like those products typically charge.
Just write it in a journal and carry that. Traveled like that for years. Or laminate it and put it in an envelope, then in the journal. Buy a journal that's got a leather cover that ties everything together. Fill the journal with pictures too. Even TSA don't go snooping through diaries. Also, always have it in your carry-on. Security doesn't need to be difficult and although memory tricks are good, our memory is overall unreliable. So while everyone is trying to be kind and intelligent with their memorization advice, having a written (offline!) backup is extremely important.
TSA is BS! I am calling a huge crypto bull run in May? Why? No reason
Now go research equitable sharing and civil forfeiture laws. These auctions just help fund law enforcement agencies which often corruptly confiscate the funds of ordinary citizens to fund their agencies. In all but four states law enforcement has the right to seize your money or assets if they believe they were involved in a crime without you ever actually being arrested or charged with any crime, which includes crypto holdings. You can also be detained indefinitely by border patrol agents until you hand over your keys to crypto wallets and accounts when you cross borders. If they choose to do so. For instance, you fly from EU to US the TSA has the right to detain you and request access to all your crypto accounts to make sure you’re not smuggling money into or out of the country. If you refuse to provide them with access to your accounts, by law, they can keep you detained indefinitely as you’re not being charged with a crime, just held until you comply.
Thank you right back for being civil and constructive. I think the fingerprint issue (the particular one brought up by the author, though I do tend to agree with him on that point) was that it is permanent and easy to forge, from an attacker's perspective. I am not sure on the legal front. ​ >plausible deniability scheme in place, like a duress PIN, or separate passphrase for a base seed Now we're talking :) In my opinion, **every** wallet should have a 13th word that is easy to remember and either (a) is funded with pocket change upon creation, warning you until you've done so, or (b) is used to hold your txn change. This is the duress wallet - easy to remember, if you forget the word who cares (it's like losing your physical wallet in the US, where you usually have < $50 in it anyway), and if someone forces you to give up the seed phrase or compromises it, and then demands to know "the real" wallet, you can give that word to them. ​ >What's a newb's self custody look like currently? Indeed, you've hit the nail on the head. The current state leaves a lot to be desired. It's too hard for Joe Average to do those swanky things you mentioned, plus proper UTXO management and at least reduction of common input ownership heuristics. Were I a wallet-makin' man, I'd take the resources out of biometry (hardware cost, software cost, and community cost as they rely on it, similar to TSA's illusion of safety) and put it into 1. Invisible BIP-32 extended public key-as-contact -- each contact of yours gets a unique key off your master which can generate addresses for you, and vice versa. Not to be confused with BIP-47. 2. 2/3 multisig and partially signed txns as 2FA, but with the 2nd/3rd device not needing full wallet software. 3. Contact categorization to assist the wallet with maintaining proper UTXO privacy. When you buy your porn, scan the address, and tell it private/public, safe/unsafe, whatever. Wallet will then make sure not to use your UTXOs from your job in the purchase, for example. Then they click a name, enter an amount, authenticate on another device (which either signs, or sends an encrypted message back to the wallet using non-BTC key, like PGP, and the wallet can sign using another extended code's master's derivative), and 99% of the time it just goes. 1% of the time it'll say "Hey, you only have 0.3 BTC in the unsafe category, but need 0.4 for this purchase. Where should we take the difference from?" and it shows you UTXOs ranked by amount and "risk". But there's probably a reason I'm not worth a billion dollars, haha.
I like to consider these types of scenarios as a mental exercise sometimes. Even just traveling with access to your crypto could be tricky. As I understand it many countries have laws about carrying large sums of currency and valuable across their borders. While crypto doesn't really work like that I don't expect the average TSA agent, police officer, or even judge to understand.
Yep. Besides that, when you fly commercially security is free to search all of your belongings for any reason at any time. There's nothing stopping a TSA agent from seeing your seed phrase and taking a photo of it. The whole point of something like a seed plate is for secure backup in a secure place. Traveling with your seed phrase in any form is just dumb unless you absolutely have to, like you're moving to a new place.
Can someone working in the TSA put that guy as a security risk on flights so he gets a cavity search every times he goes on one. That way he gets fucked when we do.
Banks act weird now about any business or withdrawal you try to do inside. They ask ya weird interrogative like questions like TSA at the airport and make things uncomfortable. I hope crypto or something makes it possible to not need banks and their shady practices while they assume you’re some fraudster.
Dressed like what? Folks wearing masks even at banks is pretty normal during the pandemic. Unless the bank has signage asking people to remove hats and sunglasses for security reasons, you’re allowed to wear hats and sunglasses. And if you’re a high profile person, I can understand why they’re wearing that stuff. If they needed to check his ID, they could have just asked him to remove it briefly just like the TSA does at airports. Him asking via note to count it elsewhere is kind of weird, but if he legitimately had a fear of getting robbed, I can understand why he did it. Assuming he has his account info on there just like any normal withdrawal, immediately assuming it’s a robbery is unreasonable.
TSA hates this one simple trick
Just when you thought you could make it out your country, you meet a corrupt TSA at the airport who wants all your money so you can live another day.
Having flown all over Europe myself, I get how it’s possible. European law/airports/air security is like a third world country compared to the USA’s TSA. I would walk onto Ryanair flights carrying a half drunk bottle of wine and the flight attendant would tell me, “Enjoy your flight!”
How is it a conspiracy to know the historical context of government using “temporary” powers in a permanent way. Just look at things like the patriot act. Every “emergency power” has always become permanent. That is not a conspiracy. Hell even the TSA was suppose to be temporary.
The people that had there crypto seized were hackers and stealers. The bitfinex people didn’t own that crypto of course there gonna investigate you on that. And they more then likely gave the crypto up for leniency on there sentencing. I’m talking about law abiding citizens like the two gentlemen I stated uptop they had there money wrongfully seized. The highway patrol and TSA wouldn’t know you have crypto if you weren’t suspected of a crime
Counterpoint: calling a policy a "national security" issue just preemptively paints critics of the policy as not caring about safety. "Don't want to take your shoes off at the airport and get groped by TSA? What, don't you care about national security?" "Don't want the government's hands on BTC? What, don't you care about national security?"
Well, I’ll agree with you about the DEA and TSA at least. FBI too.
ICE should be abolished. It’s as useless as DEA, TSA, etc.
I'll ask the TSA agent next time I fly.
BTC is a ponzu scene but the need for everyone on the planet to have a dollar bill isnt? I mean even take. A look at ppl who come across the border (legally) off a plane and HAVE NO CASH ON THEM. They are held at TSA and ostracised untill its proven true.....they're broke. But the $ isnt a scheme.
I remember a hot post in the sub was trying to smuggle a hardware wallet through TSA for a while back lol
I thought the same about NSA, TSA, operation desert storm 2, patriot act, affordable healthcare, Medicare part D, etc, etc
Type of guy that spreads his cheeks when TSA asks to search him
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There is probably a voluntarily forfeited wrench the TSA has confiscated and sold back to the government for $5
I did this after having a TSA agent confiscate my trezor.
Yeah. This is an absolutely gross story, but…c’mon lady. I’ve gotten TSA love letters in my checked bags for hairspray. I’ve had bags end up in wrong cities. Thankfully nothing permanent but dang would I not trust even $100 in cash in my bags. I’m not sure I’d blame her for not knowing about or how to manage this in crypto, but even still. I’d sooner send it in a few packages via tracked mail.
While suspicious, it's not illegal to walk around with large sums of cash. Unless you're planning to board a plane, in which case you're limited to 10,000. But wouldn't that be TSA's job?
I fly with drugs, they really don’t care at TSA. They did an internal report this year and they missed 90% of things they should have caught. It’s basically a perceived safeguard, more so an iron curtain if that makes sense.
I’ve taken a hardware wallet through airport security cleaning it with ease here’s the challenge when required to take out electrical devices, my cold storage were amongst the objects I had in my electrical bag in a sub bag, ( I have a travel case within a travel case that holds the cold storage device ) which is Metal upon opening it revealing to those around me the ledger device which has electrical components and scares unknowing TSA , though a harmless act on the surface I have no idea who was looking at me in line while doing this seeing my device exposing me to theft or losing it while putting it back in the correct way or waiting for a flight. As someone who has a cold storage device and knows good practices, security while traveling with a personal bank is insane 7k or 700BTC. After that ordeal of triple checking my things every few minutes and dealing with the unstable amount of paranoia surrounding the security of my device while traveling, taking Ubers/ taxis, being away from the place I was staying from swipers, just wasn’t worth bringing my cold storage in the first place. Only move it, when you move.
Bring an Enigma machine with you. Beware of the Polish TSA agents, they will crack it.
Holy. Shit. Looks like I'm getting a part time job as a TSA agent boys.
I honor them... EUROPA: THE LAST BATTLE... Watch that... The Waffen SS had very high standards, for a while the admission rate was lower than for Harvard (which has been horribly polluted in recent years and even has a lawsuit surrounding it due to "excessive diversity" trumping merit/qualifications... My WWII stahlhelm, might have been worn by a Dutch or German ancestor 🤔 definitely taken from North Germany at Port by my dad in the Navy... I had fun putting it in a backpack and TSA doing nothing about it 😛 In any case there should be shame on all sides when it comes to war... The whole good guy's bad guys ideation simply pushes history into repeating the cycle... My interest is more aesthetic and the sport of war than really the politics or history of it... As a yank watching where I lived in Europe (Scotland, in a small town north of Edinburgh) and traveled in Europe go down the tubes because of multicultural Marxists I never want to return... But in a way I can say I miss Amsterdam...
Reminds me if the story from years ago about the TSA detaining a traveler because they saw "Bitcoins" in his luggage. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/03/03/why-the-tsa-hassled-a-traveler-with-bitcoin-in-his-bag/?sh=67351f2976d2
I was being a bit tongue in cheek, but there are a number of reasons you could reasonably make that argument. To be clear I would never make the argument that my BTC is 'El Savador currency' and therefore immune from taxes... that's silly and seems a great way to get a lot of attention from the IRS. Regarding customs / border crossings though, there are a TON of *what ifs* that this new technology presents: What if I have my wallet set up on two devices, one on my person and one left at home. Am I truly 'taking it with me'? What if I have have a 2 of 3 multisig wallet and have 1 of the 3 keys with me, does that count? What if I have 2 keys? What if I am able to login to my exchange account that it has like $50k worth of bitcoin from my phone, do I have to tell them that? What about if I run my own node and can login to it remotely and move funds, same answer? I suspect we probably have a similar view on much of this... so not trying to argue and the above are all definitely intended as hypothetical / rhetorical. It's better to just say 'no' imo, though obviously I am not a lawyer and everyone should do what they're most comfortable with according to their own personal risk tolerance. Personally I'd rather lie and risk that than let some ignorant low-level TSA or customs agent know that I have a way to access any amount of bitcoin, which they may or may not believe is 'internet drug money' only use by criminals. Just my take on it. :)
Even in the Metaverse, you will still need to go through TSA cavity checks
Damn, it used to be metal. That’s sucks. It’s fun having a metal card in the wallet. TSA always questions it lol
Since Crypto.com has successfully appropriated the handle CDC, let’s see if we can reappropriate some more 3 letter agencies’ names. FBI, CIA, FDA, TSA, NSA, USDA, fuck it how about SEC and CFTC Will any of these fit?
Instructions unclear, stuck my ledger up my ass to try to evade TSA detection
Damn, that story is wild. Just about vindicates my paranoia of having my phone swiped out of my hands while using it... I always have a vice grip on the thing if other people are present, with my hand also on the side button ready to shut off the screen right away. I've done this even before Bitcoin, only because I don't want any thief to have an easy time and I'm also insecure about people going through my shit even though I don't really have anything to hide and nothing of value on there, lol. It's just the principle of the matter. I'm paranoid enough that when going through TSA the last few times I traveled, I'd press on the side buttons repeatedly, which makes it so that the next time you try to use Face ID (even if it's me), my phone asks for the password, and ten wrong attempts will wipe the thing. That solves the issue of someone forcing you to give them your fingerprint or holding the phone in front of your face, if you have the foresight to press on those buttons ahead of time. (Obviously this is the type of thing you'd only do in law enforcement/TSA type scenarios and not if you were held captive by some thugs who could make you cough up the pass easily, haha)