Indonesian moving to Australia soon, I’m just concerned my laptop/phone will be checked for pirated content.

The general rule of thumb I’ve seen around the internet is “encrypt your drive”, which is easy enough. But the other approach typically says “bring a burner phone / laptop” which of course isn’t viable in my case.

Can anyone confirm on the legitimacy of these claims? I know I pirate light (““light”” compared to the vets here), but I’m just so paranoid that I could be held up and sent back home, because this might be my only shot.

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    1 year ago

    They didn’t check my laptop or mobile phone, however I didn’t really hold any illegal materials.

    Just don’t bring any food, or any other prohibited things, they care more about real things than files you have in your laptop.

    I had all my work related files uploaded to proton, just in case (I was going as tourist, planning on studying).

    Good luck :)