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 Be mindful traveling to Sydney. Bring a decoy phone. 

https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/14/australian-man-says-border-force-made-him-hand-over-phone-passcode-by-threatening-to-keep-device-indefinitely 
 That's crazy  
 wow 
 Soon we’ll be able to bring a burner phone across borders and once settled in we just enter 12 words into a setup script and be done.

We’ll have all our contacts and lightning wallet ready to go. Let the border agents steal the blank phone if they insist.

If we can get enough people to open up their WiFi to the public (and earn sats?!) then we won’t even need mobile data plans when traveling. 
 You can do this on graphene os with a thing called seed vault, wipe your phone then restore it with a 12   
 https://i.nostr.build/Ygkwq.jpg 
 OMG 😁 🤣 this is hilarious. I think the law was passed before he became the current "dictator" though.  
 Saw it elsewhere and just had to save it! Absolute gold 🤣😆 
 Can confirm:

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 Australia is a communist shithole.  
 Getting there 
 When they shut the borders and stopped people leaving it became official 
 going back to its penal colony roots