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Either that or set up a kiosk 10 metres before the gate where you could backup your smartphone to a usb stick and do a factory reset. And another kiosk at the destination airport, for reversing the process. Data 100% encrypted.

Bonus, collect payment upon decryption, a la ransomware. Maybe start a chain and call it "runsomewhere".

While I'm mostly joking here, things like this are already happening; the mechanism of 1Password's "Travel Mode"[1] is pretty similar to the above idea.

[1]: https://1password.com/features/travel-mode/



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