Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Yellow Peril Tactical Profile picture
@YPTActual
May 13 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Scrolly
Phone searches at the border

A lot of you probably saw how Hasan Piker was questioned at the border reentering the USA. We have followers who travel all over the world, so we wanted to share some tips for dealing with searches of your phone at the border. A pic of 2 passports and a phone, caption says “phone searches at the US border”
It IS LEGAL for law-enforcement at the border or a port of entry to search your phone. This goes for both citizens and non citizens. Generally, law-enforcement may do so without a warrant. The chances of getting searched are quite low, but never 0.
Before you leave

- Make sure your phone OS is fully updated, since updates usually include latest security fixes
- Make backups of everything on your phone, so if it gets seized, you’ll still have all of your stuff Before you leave the USA • Make sure your phone OS is fully updated, since updates usually include latest security fixes • Make backups of everything on your phone, so if it gets seized, you'll still have all of your stuff • We've gone over this in more depth before, but make sure your phone is protected by a strong password. Make sure it can't be unlocked via fingerprint or face scan
- We’ve gone over this in more depth before, but make sure your phone is protected by a strong password. Make sure your it can’t be unlocked via fingerprint or face scan
At the border

- Turn your device off at entry point to counteract passive data collection methods

- Don’t open your phone or give the password to officers. They might try to convince you or lie to you and say that you have to unlock your phone, but that’s not true. Don’t do it. At the border • Turn your device off at entry point to counteract passive data collection methods • Do not open your phone or give the password to officers. They will probably try to convince you to or lie to you and say that you have to unlock your phone, but that's not true. Don't do it.
If you won’t unlock for officers, they can seize your phone for an indeterminate length of time (that’s where the phone backup comes in), but at least they won’t know what’s on it. If you’re running, say, a newer iPhone and updated OS, they likely won’t be able to crack it either
If you’re a citizen, you can’t be kept out for not unlocking your phone. For green card holders, there are probably some legal Qs that we aren’t qualified to answer. If you’re just coming to visit, however, you can be turned away at the border for not submitting to the search. Citizenship status • US citizen: can't be kept out of the USA for not unlocking your phone • Green card holders: murky legal questions as to whether you can be denied entry. • Non-citizen visitors: you CAN be turned away at the border for not submitting to the search.
Our post is just the extreme basics. Electronic Frontier foundation has a ton of free and more in depth info covering phones and other devices.

This post prepared with assistance of an attorney. This is not legal advice and YPT is not your lawyer. More info and guides: Then it’s a screenshot of the EFF webpage
More opsec stuff the the highlights of our Instagram 👍 Screenshot of the YPT IG page

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Yellow Peril Tactical

Yellow Peril Tactical Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @YPTActual

Yellow Peril Tactical Profile picture
Dec 4, 2024
“Short” guide to the main factions of the Syrian Civil War. Lots of nonsense out there. Some of it is just people not being informed, but some is pro-Turkish, or pro-Russian, or pro-Assad swill (especially left pro-Assad crap). Factions of the Syrian Civil War We've been seeing a lot of takes about the Syrian Civil War lately, many of which wholly misunderstand who the different players are, accidentally or on purpose. This won't tell you everything about a conflict that's been going, on and off, since 2011, but it will help! In this slideshow, we got over the 4 main factions of the conflict now: Bashar Assad's Syria, HTS, SNA/TFSA, and AANES. We are IG shadowbanned which is why we use the symbols in place of letters a lot, so bear with us.
A brief history of the Assad family and Baathism 1. Bashar Assad and the Syrian State Bashar Assad is a strongman whose family has run the country for decades. Head of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which originally had its roots in the pan-Arabist movement which culminated in the United Arab Republic, a union of Syria and Egypt under Egyptian president Gamel Nassar. The UAR fell apart, and a series of coups led to control of Syria by the military officer Hafez Assad. The Ba'ath party has nothing to do with socialism, it's mainly about enriching the Assad family and its clique of mainly Alawite higher ups. The Assad family is Alawite, a...
Why Assad is bad Assad answers the question, "What would happen if an eye doctor became a massive human rights abuser?" Assad is a scumbag from a family of human rights abusing scumbags. Indeed, Bashar is an opthalmologist by trade and was not even supposed to be the chief scumbag until a car crash killed his brother Bassel. Assad kicked off the civil war by massacring protestors in 2011 during a regional uprising sometimes called the "Arab Spring." Since then he's engaged in fake elections, vast political repression, indiscriminate barrel bombing, attacking hospitals, gas attacks in pla...
Read 13 tweets
Yellow Peril Tactical Profile picture
Sep 27, 2024
“Slow is smooth, smooth is fast” is a fudd canard. It’s just silly on its face. Fast is fast, and we can measure speed by using a shot timer. Sometimes we get the question, when should I start working with a timer and pushing speed? Probably sooner than you think. Meme. Grandma with a hunting hat wearing the NRA logo. She says “slow is smooth and smooth is fast!” A young lady with a hat with a Phoward patch says “sure grandma, now let’s get you to bed”
Remembers: skills like shot confirmation, recoil management at speed, and how to press the trigger quickly at speed can only be practiced while shooting fast. Practicing these slowly will not develop these skills. Slow fire will not tell you how the gun behaves at speed.
The drills to start practicing these skills are actually really simple. Shot confirmation and recoil management? Doubles drill. Trigger control at speed? Trigger control at speed drill.
Read 8 tweets
Yellow Peril Tactical Profile picture
Sep 26, 2024
We’ve written about politics in Georgia (Sakartvelo) before and the conflict between Georgian Dream and its political opponents. Georgian Dream has released new ads in the capital Tbilisi which amount to political hostage-taking and blackmail. Political billboard
Pic 1 is the theater the Russians destroyed in Mariupol, Ukraine with the caption “no to war,” and the election numbers of the Georgian opposition. The right side shows Senaki Theater with the caption “choose peace” and Georgian Dream’s election number.
Political billboard
Political billboard
Pic 2 shows a bombed out church in Donetsk contrasted with the Sameba Kathedral in Tblisi. Pic 3 shows 2 contrasting classrooms. Both photos have the same captions.

Pics from Katie Shoshiashvili @KShoshiashvili on Twitter.
Read 8 tweets
Yellow Peril Tactical Profile picture
Sep 16, 2024
Quality of life item: USPSA carry optics extended mags

We’ve been talking a lot about competing USPSA as a training tool to push yourself and develop the skill of performance on demand. If you’re shooting Carry Optics class, why not get some stendos legal for the class? CZ shadow 2 with extended mag
If you’ve shot the class at all you’ve probably notice that despite the name, most people are shooting full size handguns with extended mags. There’s nothing stopping you from you getting good with stock mags (like 15 rounds on your Glock 19) Glock 19 with extended mags
on a small gun, but it is nice mentally to not have to think so hard about reloads, and some shorter stages you may be able to shoot without a reload at all, or at least with fewer. The USPSA rulebook has the specifics magazine dimension maximums. But just to make this easy:
Read 7 tweets
Yellow Peril Tactical Profile picture
Sep 13, 2024
“Death to Fascists, Fire!”

Dmytro Mrachnik is a former mortarman and friend of YPT. Dmitro is a longtime Ukrainian antifascist, and he’s been in the army fighting Russia since the full scale invasion in 2022. Fundraiser for Dmytro: antifascist fighter in Ukraine
As we’ve often talked about on YPT, so many Ukrainian (and Belarusian!) antifascists have been fighting Russian invasion since 2022. Dmytro himself fought in Kharkiv and Bakhmut, where we supported him with car repairs.
And recently, we were so grateful to him for sharing his experiences with us on the Tiger Bloc Podcast. Go check out the episode if you haven’t, great listen.

podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ypt-t…
Read 10 tweets
Yellow Peril Tactical Profile picture
Sep 5, 2024
How to use LPVO with bullet drop compensator (BDC) reticle

BLUF: you will need to confirm your reticle in live fire for your specific ammo and setup.

Low power variable optics (LPVOs) have become pretty popular lately for those looking to stretch the legs on AR rifles… BDC reticle and caption says “how to use a LPVO with a bullet drop compensator reticle”
while still retaining the ability to have a 1x for shooting closer in with no magnification. A lot of the time, LPVOs will have a BDC reticle like the one in the post picture. This Vortex Venom reticle has pre-marked holdovers for 300, 400, 500, and 600 yards. BDC reticle
Seems easy right? Just hold over the target, press trigger, and make hit. But read the fine print. Couple things to keep in mind.

One is the zero distance. The subtensions won’t correspond unless you zero the optic in the right place. Here, reading that manual, that’s 50 yards.
Read 8 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

Send Email!

:(